May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 455
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SCIENTISTS.) DAVY, HUMPHRY. Autograph Letter Signed, "H. Davy," to the Reverend Edward Forster, explaining that he does not collect manuscripts and has little interest in those by great chemists, adding that the library of the Royal Society might benefit from them and, in a postscript, requesting that he forward the enclosed note [not present] to Sir [Sidney?] Smith. 1 1/2 pages, small 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; short closed tear with minor loss to text at right edge repaired with paper recto and verso, minor scattered staining, folds. (MRS) Np, 16 December 1824
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". . . I do not myself collect MSS & those respecting the early progress of chemistry even from the greatest men possess comparatively little interest.
"Such MSS . . . would in their connection with the history of Science be useful in the library of the Royal Society of which Bergman was an illustrious fellow. . . ."