May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 117
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(SCIENTISTS.) SPENCER, HERBERT. Two items: Autograph Note Signed, in the third person within the text * Letter Signed. The first: "With Mr. Herbert Spencer's compliments & apologies for the long delay." The second, to Messrs George Head & Co., declining a proposal to remain a tenant while accepting a sub-tenant, and explaining that he had not left the house vacant because it had been in the charge of a caretaker while he was living at his Brighton residence. Together 4 pages, 8vo, each written on a single folded sheet, "Regents Park" stationery with printed address marked out. (MRS) Brighton, 6 May 1849; 26 September 1898