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Brussels, Waterloo & the Rhine.- Boger (Walter Deeble, Barrister-at-Law, High Sheriff of Cornwall, of Wolsdon, Antony, Cornwall, married Amelia Harriet Bosworth, b. 1832) [Journal of an eight month stay in Brussels], autograph manuscript, 213pp. excluding blanks, numerous pen and ink sketches in the text, a letter from the Commissionaire of Police in place of a passport for travelling in the Rhine, printed programme of a concert at Académie Royale, Brussels, tipped-in, and a printed programme of a Fêtes to celebrate Belgian Independence September 1849 tipped-in, a few pp. of expences, last f. in pencil, 1f. loose, browned, original boards, slightly rubbed, rebacked in modern morocco, sm. 4to, 30th April - 14th December 1849.
⁂ A young expatriate Englishman living for eight months in Brussels in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Battle of Waterloo. "Wednesday 28th September [1849]. We went to Waterloo. We went over the ground with a guide called Martin Pirsor successor to Sergeant Major Cotton, who described the battle & the positions of the troops & as he was describing he mentioned the name of General Maitland [Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777-1854), commander of the 1st brigade of guards in 1815 at Quatre Bras and Waterloo], & said that's where he was stationed & a gentleman in another party just behind us smiled & said 'Yes you're right. There's where I was.' It was General Maitland himself who went over the field & explained to his son who was with him the whole battle. At least we saw him pointing out different places." - W.D. Boger.
Acquaintance of the Brontës in Brussels. "Mr Jenkins the Clergyman of the Protestant Church called this afternoon. I have heard a very bad character of him that he is imprisoned for debt generally once a month, when the Protestants club together to get him out, that he is fond of his bottle & that last Sunday instead of preaching he wished to marry all the people. He is the queerest looking old fellow I ever saw & it was by the greatest efforts I managed to restrain my laughter at many things he said." - W.D. Boger. [The Jenkins family played an important role in the Brontë Brussels story, introducing Emily and Charlotte to the Hegers and their Pensionnat].
Other items recorded in the journal, include: Princess Hohenloh [Hohenlohe] on the steamer from Dover; saw Houdin perform at the Theatre St Hubert; reads Martin Chuzzlewit; taught art by François Stroobant (1819-1916), Belgian painter, engraver, draftsman , lithographer and watercolourist; visits Clairefontaine; visits the Palais de Justice to watch a trial with large pen and ink sketch of the courtroom; visits Treves (Triers) in Germany and Arlon with pen and ink map of Arlon; visits Metz and Nancy; met Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (1802-61), French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist; visits the Rhine, travels to Coblentz, receives a letter from "Mr Coleridge"; fete day in Brussels, tumblers, soldiers etc.
Lot 179
Brussels, Waterloo & The Rhine.- Journal of an eight month stay in Brussels, autograph manuscript, numerous pen and ink sketches, 1849.
Hammer Price: £1,200
Description
Brussels, Waterloo & the Rhine.- Boger (Walter Deeble, Barrister-at-Law, High Sheriff of Cornwall, of Wolsdon, Antony, Cornwall, married Amelia Harriet Bosworth, b. 1832) [Journal of an eight month stay in Brussels], autograph manuscript, 213pp. excluding blanks, numerous pen and ink sketches in the text, a letter from the Commissionaire of Police in place of a passport for travelling in the Rhine, printed programme of a concert at Académie Royale, Brussels, tipped-in, and a printed programme of a Fêtes to celebrate Belgian Independence September 1849 tipped-in, a few pp. of expences, last f. in pencil, 1f. loose, browned, original boards, slightly rubbed, rebacked in modern morocco, sm. 4to, 30th April - 14th December 1849.
⁂ A young expatriate Englishman living for eight months in Brussels in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Battle of Waterloo. "Wednesday 28th September [1849]. We went to Waterloo. We went over the ground with a guide called Martin Pirsor successor to Sergeant Major Cotton, who described the battle & the positions of the troops & as he was describing he mentioned the name of General Maitland [Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777-1854), commander of the 1st brigade of guards in 1815 at Quatre Bras and Waterloo], & said that's where he was stationed & a gentleman in another party just behind us smiled & said 'Yes you're right. There's where I was.' It was General Maitland himself who went over the field & explained to his son who was with him the whole battle. At least we saw him pointing out different places." - W.D. Boger.
Acquaintance of the Brontës in Brussels. "Mr Jenkins the Clergyman of the Protestant Church called this afternoon. I have heard a very bad character of him that he is imprisoned for debt generally once a month, when the Protestants club together to get him out, that he is fond of his bottle & that last Sunday instead of preaching he wished to marry all the people. He is the queerest looking old fellow I ever saw & it was by the greatest efforts I managed to restrain my laughter at many things he said." - W.D. Boger. [The Jenkins family played an important role in the Brontë Brussels story, introducing Emily and Charlotte to the Hegers and their Pensionnat].
Other items recorded in the journal, include: Princess Hohenloh [Hohenlohe] on the steamer from Dover; saw Houdin perform at the Theatre St Hubert; reads Martin Chuzzlewit; taught art by François Stroobant (1819-1916), Belgian painter, engraver, draftsman , lithographer and watercolourist; visits Clairefontaine; visits the Palais de Justice to watch a trial with large pen and ink sketch of the courtroom; visits Treves (Triers) in Germany and Arlon with pen and ink map of Arlon; visits Metz and Nancy; met Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (1802-61), French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist; visits the Rhine, travels to Coblentz, receives a letter from "Mr Coleridge"; fete day in Brussels, tumblers, soldiers etc.