: Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle. , London: July 24th. 1836

A copy of this broadsheet newspaper. Four pages, folded, with slight edgewear, two very small fold tears, no loss, otherwise very good condition. Domestic politics, foreign intelligence, sport, advertisements. There is coverage of Parliament, Police intelligence, Markets, sporting reports, one small woodcut engraving. - Reports of horse races at Goodwood, Liverpool., Southampton, Gloucester, Newmarket etc, Cowes Intelligence, various Yacht Club reports, cricket matches, Leicestershire/South Derbyshire, Buckland and Wytchwood Forest Clubs, Hertford against England, etc, Adams and Lane Boxing Match, balloon ascents, adverts for gout pills and cures for Syphilitic diseases feature . etc etc. "Mr Wise the aeronaut , is now in Philadelphia, according to the Philadelphia Gazette, confined to his room, in a very critical condition, dreadfully burnt. On Sat. last he made an ascension in his balloon from Lancaster, and alighted between 8 and 9 at Baltimore. A crowd gathered round him with torches and as the gas was escaping from the balloon it came into contact with the light, when the whole exploded, destroying aerostat, clothes and instruments, and shockingly injuring Mr Wise himself. Hopes are entertained of his recovery." - "Mrs Graham made another ascent in her balloon from Bayswater on Tuesday, accompanied by Capt. Currie and ultimately descended in safety in a field in Eltham in Kent. Mrs Graham, after describing the pleasures of her voyage says, "I am happy in being able to state that a new era in the science of aerostation has nearly arrived and that shortly it will become a source of utility as well as pleasure." - One wonders what her Bayswater neighbours thought of her balloon and her ascending with a gentleman who was not her husband, shocking? (Book ref. 12907)  £32.00

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