Jean-Baptiste SAY (1767–1832). 3 letters, dated 1832 and und - Lot 124

Jean-Baptiste SAY (1767–1832). 3 letters, dated 1832 and undated, to several ladies; 4 pages, in-8 or in-4 format, 2 addresses. Monday morning, to Mrs. Soehnée. Advice on sending newspapers to England: “They are not prohibited goods at English customs, but customs officials must be able to see the contents of the package; if you include a written note, put it separately.”… She sent him the second volume of *The Dictionary of Relics*, “probably so that I might read it”… He mentions a letter to be passed on to Jeremy Bentham. October 30, regarding a letter from Naples that Keratry had copied and submitted to the censors: “The censors rejected it. It seems they have orders not to allow any comments favorable to the three revolutions in the South. It’s quite something that they allow the acts of these revolutionary governments to pass.”… February 1832, to Alphonsine Duméril (widow of Horace Say; Alphonsine Delaroche had remarried Constant Duméril). He sends her a clock that “might look good on the mantelpiece in your parlor.” The figure adorning it “must be accurately rendered, as it is modeled after an ancient Demosthenes from the Museum. There is no gilding to avoid the inconvenience of having a glass case that weighs down the clock and is prone to breaking”…