Moreton <1>
Saturday
My dear Henry
I am sorry to give you any more trouble but I find that when I wrote to you the other day I had overlooked another Book in Thorpe’s Catalogue<2> which I am more anxious about than even the others as it is extraordinarily cheap & one I have long been trying to procure – If therefore you wd be so good as to order this to be sent to 5 Bury St also, I shall be very much obliged to you –
6739. Souverains du Monde. <3> &c with plates of Arms – from the Rockingham <4> Collection – 4 vols. 8o – La Haye 1722. 7/6.
I send this note by Henry’s <5> Servant who is going up today, by which means you will receive it Sunday. as I am afraid of any delay for fear the Books should be sold –
Yr aff Cousin
Harriet Frampton.
Henry Talbot Esqre
31 Sackville Street
Notes:
1. Moreton, Dorset: home of the Frampton family.
2. Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller, London.
3. Ferdinand Ludwig von Bressler und Aschenburg, Les souverains du monde ouvrage qui fait connoistre la Genealogie de leurs Maisons, l’Etenduë & le Gouvernement de leurs Etats, leur Religion, leurs Revenus, leurs Forces, leurs Titres, leurs Prétentions, leurs Armoiries, l’Origine historique des Pieces ou des Quartiers qui les composent & le lieu de leur Residence, avec un catalogue des auteurs qui en ont le mieux ecrit, le tout conduit jusqu’au tems present. (Aux dépens de la Compagnie La Haye: 1721–1722), which included 47 plates.
4. Probably Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730–1782), 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Collector of sculpture, medals and coins.
5. Henry Frampton (1804-1879).