Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

71 Works on Paper 207 BORROMEO, CARLO (1538-1584) A vellum document, 1566 of a dispensation granted by Carlo Borromeo as cardinal priest of Santa Prassede in Rome to an Italian couple desiring to marry, but who were within the restricted degrees of consanguinity € 300 - 400 208 HALL, ANNA MARIA Autograph draft with extensive correction for ‘The Groves of Blarney’ Quarto, dated 21st December 1837. With accompanying autograph letter, no date, from The Rosery, Old Brompton, specifying the ‘exact shape’ of the Theatre programme. € 150 - 250 209 A LETTER FROM EDWARD MANGIN TO THOMAS MOORE, dated ‘Bath,Aug: 5. 1834’, Mangin is writing in relation to Moore’s book ‘The Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald’ to suggest a ‘slight alteration or correction’ in relation to his ‘old friend...Will Lawless...in P.P. 75.76. vol: 2’, € 600 - 800 206 FITZGERALD, GEORGE FRANCIS Autographed letter signed from Fitzgerald to Mr. Mooney Six pages [112 x 180mm], black border on TCD headed paper, dated 26? November 1897. Important letter regretting he can’t attend a Mansion House meeting “I had overlooked a very long arranged meeting of the Board of National Education ... to decide some very important questions about ‘Readers’ for National Schools ... that my duty to the public in connection with my position as a Commissioner of Education must take precedence.” He goes on to discuss a permanent exhibition of Irish Industry and a site between Kildare Place and Upper Mount Street “It is generally believed that this ground is intended for a College of Science, but it would be in every way preferable that the great Technical College which we all expect soon to be provided in Dublin should be built in connection with the City of Dublin Technical Schools.” Prof George Francis FitzGerald FRS FRSE (1851-1901) academic, was Erasmus Smith’s Pro- fessor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1881-1901) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein’s special theory of relativity. A crater on the far side of the Moon is named for him, as is a building at TCD € 150 - 200