Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 281

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WRITERS--19TH CENTURY.) Group of 4 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

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Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe. Two Autograph Quotations Signed on same sheet, each by one, Julia's on the upper portion of page (beginning "We forget that all the needs and / duties of society are perpetual"), Samuel's on the lower ("Work,--not words. / Sam'l GHowe"). 1 page, 4to. Np, nd Harriet Beecher Stowe. Check endorsed, "HB Stowe," on verso, payable to her from publisher James R. Osgood & Co. in the amount of $200 drawn on the Central National Bank of New York. 3x8 inches. Np, 27 December 1871 [date of issue] Charles Kingsley. ALS, "CKingsley," to "My dear Parker," promising to send the draft of an article ("Mrs. Jameson" [probably "The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art," Fraser's Magazine, March, 1849]). 3 pages, 8vo. Ilfracombe, "Wednesday" [1849] Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Brief ALS, "Mr. Sheridan," in the third person within the text, to "Mr. Hickey": "Mr. Sheridan's comp's to Mr. Hickey would be much obliged to him if he would be so good as to call in Great Queen Street tomorrow before two o'clock, as Mr. S'n afores'd it will not be in his Power to call on Mr. Hickey." 1 page, 5 1/2x7 1/2 inches. Np, "Tuesd. Night."