Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting. . e day by M. Boussey,priest-vicar at Nolay. He had for godfather Sieur NicolasClement, son of Marie Carnot, my sister; and for godmother, COLLECTORS, ETC.—ALBUMS. 11 Demoiselle Marguerite Pothier, daughter of M. Pothier, dwellerat Nolay, uncle of my wife. He is called Laz
Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting. . e day by M. Boussey,priest-vicar at Nolay. He had for godfather Sieur NicolasClement, son of Marie Carnot, my sister; and for godmother, COLLECTORS, ETC.—ALBUMS. 11 Demoiselle Marguerite Pothier, daughter of M. Pothier, dwellerat Nolay, uncle of my wife. He is called Lazare NicolasMarguerite. This child is born in a season of calamity, throughthe frequent and sudden deaths which afflict this place in thesame manner as all others of the province. May God thuspresent His anger to him in all the course of his life in orderthat he may conduct himself with fear and merit His mercy. Forty years later, when already his son had experienced aportion of those vicissitudes which marked his public career,the same paternal hand, touched with icy chill of death,added these lines (in French): I have watched him from infancy with closest careAs son, brother, husband, father, soldier, and or exalted, exposed to praise or shame,Without gall and without pride, he, ever was the CHAPTER II. Early Letters and Collectors—Ashmole —dugdale—oldys, etc. LTHOUGH writings of the remotest antiquity havebeen discovered among the ruins of Nineveh,Egypt, and elsewhere—and though we have inour museums papyri of the greatest interestwhich speak of the familiar social life of the ancientworld—besides the Epistles of the Apostles and the Fathers ofthe Church, and since these we possess letters of celebratedbishops and other ecclesiastics which throw light on the longhistoric gloom between the fall of the Roman Empire and theperiod of the Renaissance, yet anything like the intimatecorrespondence we associate with letters at the present timewas
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