Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WRITERS.) Group of 4 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by 19th-century writers. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Check accomplished and Signed, "RWaldoEmerson," to bearer in the amount of $37.94 drawing on the Atlantic National Bank. With 2-cent revenue stamp at left edge. 2 3/4x7 1/4 inches; cancellation hole at center (without loss to text), folds. Boston, 27 June 1874 • John Greenleaf Whittier. Clipped Signature ("JohnGWhittier"), on a slip of paper. 1 3/4x3 inches, quad ruled paper. Np, nd • Horatio Alger. ALS, "H. Alger, Jr.," to Fred A. Larkin, sending an additional autograph [not present] and announcing the release in May of his new book Mark the Match Boy. 1 page, small 8vo, ruled paper. New York, 12 March 1869 • Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (2). ALS, "Julia A. Carney," to Rev. J.R. Bailey, sending her poem, "Little Things"; AMS, "Julia A. Fletcher / Now Mrs. Carney," the complete poem in four stanzas, written on letter's conjugate leaf. Together 2 pages, small 8vo. Galesburg, 7 March 1892.