Lovelace ada augusta (3 resultados)

OPpBd. xxiv,365 S. OU. Mit einigen Fotografien. Zustand: Gutes Exemplar. Fotos auf Anfrage.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 11.5 x 3.5 cm. Neat black ink, unfoxed and unshipped, taken from old visitors book. F.

8vo (114 x 184 mm). 2 pp. on a bifolium with integral blank. Includes a steel-engraved portrait. A rare and early letter to Alfred Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, informing him that she has decided to subscribe to a stall for the season and asking him to call at her home to settle its position and related arrangements: "Lady Lovelace presents Her Compliments to Mr Bunn, & has made up her mind to engage a Stall for the Season - 20 Guineas. She will be much obliged if Mr Bunn will be so good as to call in St James' Sqre on Saturday Morning at 10 o'clock, in order to settle the locality, & also some other arrangements which Lady L is desirous of making conditionally on the event of her absence for a small part of the season. Lady L expects also by Saturday to have communicated with two or three friends who may probably also engage Stalls for the whole or half of the Season". - Addressed to one of the most prominent theatre managers of the day, the letter records an act of patronage and attendance rather than abstract sociability, fixing Lovelace within the theatrical and social circuits of metropolitan London. Such evidence is especially desirable in her case, as autograph material by her remains notably scarce on the market. - Written from the St James's Square household in the years between her marriage and her great collaboration with Charles Babbage, the present letter belongs to the same cultivated milieu in which her mathematical ambitions were taking shape. - Includes a childhood portrait of Ada Lovelace engraved by W. H. Mote after Frank Stone, published in the mid-1830s. - Traces of original folds. Traces of former mount on verso of integral blank, gutter a bit lightened, professionally restored. - With a 1999 invoice from Patricia Clipson's Autograph Collectors Gallery of Nottingham, to a Mr Smith, for several autographs, including this one.…