May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 1,408
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(WRITERS--AMERICAN AND BRITISH.) Group of over 70 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by 19th- and 20th-century writers, including mostly Clipped Signatures. Each mounted to recto or verso of a loose album leaf with two or three to a page, most identified, many with staining recto from mounting. sold as is. Vp, vd

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William Taylor Adams. 6 January 1884 Louisa May Alcott Thomas Bailey Aldrich. ALS. 20 November 1883 Matthew Arnold. 25 March 1886 Joel Benton. 20 November 1883 Mary Elizabeth Braddon Robert Browning. 23 January 1884 William Cullen Bryant. 27 October 1871 Robert Jones Burdette. 18 January 1884 Frances Hodgson Burnett (2) Elihu Burritt William Allen Butler (2). Two ALsS. 8 March 1872; 24 April 1877 George Washington Cable. 14 January 1884 Will Carleton. 30 November 1871 Wilkie Collins. 20 December 1883 Moncure D. Conway James Fenimore Cooper. Partly-printed check Accomplished and Signed. 9 June 1838 George William Curtis. ALS. 12 November 1883 Caleb Cushing Anna Elizabeth Dickinson Mary Mapes Dodge. ALS. 6 March 1879 Edgar Fawcett. ALS. 3 December no year Annie Adams Fields. ALS. 26 July 1909 John Fiske. 10 December 1885 James Anthony Froude Parke Godwin. 14 February 1886 Horace Greeley. ALS. 24 September 1868 Grace Greenwood John Habberton. ALS. 30 November 1889 Joel Chandler Harris. ALS. 3 December no year Julian Hawthorne Thomas Wentworth Higginson Ogden Hoffman Oliver Wendell Holmes. 16 October 1883 Julia Ward Howe William Dean Howells. 19 November 1883 Thomas Hughes Helen Hunt Jackson. AQS, "The Way to Sing." 9 September 1883 Henry James (4). One an ALS. 19 July 1871 Sarah Orne Jewett. ALS. 6 September 1885 Lucy Larcom. 17 November 1883 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. ALS. 7 April no year David Ross Locke Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 29 July 1879 James Russell Lowell. ALS. 9 November 1885 Brander Matthews. ALS. 1 May 1907 Joaquin Miller. 1883 Donald Grant Mitchell. ALS. 3 October no year Margaret Oliphant. ALS. 26 December 1874 James Parton Samuel I. Prime Edward Payson Roe. 6 November 1885 Philip Schaff Eugene Schuyler Charles Scribner. AQS: "Above scholarship & above riches is the cause of Humanity." 31 October 1856 Ernest Thompson Seton. With ink drawing of paw print Lydia Sigourney Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. AMS, her poem "Cavete, Felices!" November 1883 Edmund Clarence Stedman. AQS, beginning "To Purgatory I would go" Frank R. Stockton. ALS. 20 April 1886 Bayard Taylor Mary Virginia Terhune. Signed "Marion Harland." 30 June 1880 Celia Thaxter. September 1883 Carl van Doren. TLS. 4 January 1941 Henry van Dyke. TLS. 22 June 1917 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. October 1891 Anna B. Warner. 24 November 1883 Charles Dudley Warner. 2 April 1874 Susan Warner. 26 November 1883 Richard Grant White Adeline Dutton Train Whitney John Greenleaf Whittier. AQS, portion of poem beginning "I hear the solemn monotone." 2 March 1890 Nathaniel Parker Willis others.