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the history of the violin, 1864
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1The following letter written to William Forster (3) and dated 21 May, 1815:—
3"Mrs. Hole,
4"Mrs. Horne's,
5"Near Uxbridge,
6"Middlesex.
8"MR. FORSTER,
9"I have a very beautiful violoncello here of the late Rev. H. A. Hole's of your father's making. As I keep two for my son, I wish to dispose of this. I have sold the fine instrument, about which I wrote to you, to Mr. Crosdale. Will you take this, or dispose of it for me? I will not part with it under 25l. Mr. Monzani has offered to dispose of it for me, but as you are an old acquaintance of the late Mr. Hole's, and it is your father's instrument, I prefer making you the first offer of it. Let me know immediately whether you will take it, or dispose of it for me, and I will send it up to you safely by the coach. I am not certain, but I think Mr. Hole called the instrument a Steiner.
11"I am, Mr. Forster,
12"Yours, &c.
13"S. HOLE."
15Mr. James Crossdill had retired from the musical profession several years before the purchase of this famous instrument, and after his death all his remaining violoncellos, seven in number, were sold by auction on the 9th May, 1826, at which time Robert Lindley, the celebrated violoncellist of the day, bought it for fifty guineas. Two or three gentlemen had attended the auction with the intention of buying this well-known violoncello; but on Lindley naming the first price for it, fifty guineas, no person then present would compete; and, on the auctioneer announcing the purchaser's name, great approbation was
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