Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WRITERS.) Group of 8 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by mostly 19th-century writers. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

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Thornton Wilder. ALS, declining an invitation to speak. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery. "Univeristy of Chicago," 17 April 1934 Owen Wister. Two brief ALsS. The first, declining an invitation. 1/2 page, 8vo, "Long House" stationery. Bryn Mawr, 1 March no year. The second, to E.T. Hill, written in a space below Mr. Hill's letter, agreeing to sign some copies of his own books in a library's collection. 1/2 page, 8vo, "Saint Paul's School" stationery. Np, Thursday 11 October no year Harriet Beecher Stowe. Check Endorsed, "Pay to G.P. Bissel or order, H.B. Stowe," on verso of a check to her from publisher James R. Osgood. Approximately 2 3/4x8 1/2 inches. Philadelphia, 10 November 1795 Wendell Phillips. Brief ALS, in full: "I'm glad that accident brings me home sooner than I planned--I'll come over this aft." 1 page, small 8vo. Np, 29 January no year William H. Prescott. Two items Inscribed and Signed, "Wm. H. Prescott." The first, ALS, enclosing "twenty five dollars for your lectures,--with many thanks for the instruction you have given my daughter." 1 page, small 8vo, with integral blank. Boston, 31 April 1847. The second, ANS, in full: "I am very happy if I can give you any pleasure by sending you a thing of so little value as my autograph." 1 page, 12mo. "Beacon Street," 28 April 1856 Thomas Hughes. Autograph Quotation Signed, "Tho. Hughes," quoting from an unknown source, in full: "They say: what say they? Let them say--." Approximately 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches. Chester, 4 November 1890.