Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 283

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(EDUCATION.) GRAVES, ANNA MELISSA. Group of letters written to her from Ralph Bunche, William Leo Hansberry, Alain Locke, and Leslie Pinckney Hill. Various size, and length. Various places and dates, 1930's - 1940's

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Anna Melissa Graves (1875-1964), was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances and former students she met on her travels. Some of her correspondence offered here includes: one 4 page ALS from Ralph Bunche; two 1 page TLS from Leslie Pincknew Hill plus several letters from Jane Hill; one ALS, and one TLS from Alain Locke; 6 ALS from William Leo Hansberry. Most deal with issues of education.