Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BUSINESS.) LIPTON, THOMAS. Two Typed Letters Signed, "Thomas J. Lipton," to American poet Wilbur D. Nesbit. The first, responding to a request for an after-dinner toast. The second, discussing travel plans and offering him a tour of [his yachts] the "Erin" and the "Shamrock." Each 1 page, the first "S.Y. Erin" stationery, the second "Osidge" stationery; folds. Southampton, 30 August 1909; London, 27 July 1914

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30 August 1909: Lipton offers the following toast: "Here's to all of us, / For there's so much good in the worst of us, / And so much bad in the best of us, / That it hardly behoves [sic] any of us / To talk about the rest of us."