Mar 19, 2015 - Sale 2376

Sale 2376 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
BEARD, DANIEL C. Group of 3 Typed Letters Signed, "Dan" or "DanBeard" or "DanielCBeard," to Charles Lamb, on various topics, the first with a holograph postscript: "The MS has not been edited or proofread," also with an attached 4-page typescript for a speech, unsigned. The speech, on civilization and the importance of outdoor living. Each 1 page, 4to, "Dan Bear Outdoor School" or "Dan Beard Camp" stationery; minor scattered soiling and short closed edge tears to first letter. [New York or Hawley, PA], 24 January 1925; [Suffern, NY or Hawley], 2 July 1931; 26 October 1932

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1925: "When I make a speech I do it without notes and without any preparation further than dictating what I want to say . . . . I do not commit it to memory, I do not look at it again after dictating it, but I have been misquoted so many times that . . . I keep such notes . . . . If they will interest you I am sending them . . . ."
1931: ". . . I am dictating this in a little old shack back of our log cabin. The rear end of the shack is thrust in the primeval forest. The deer, the rackcoon [sic], great northern hare Rabits [sic] and woodchuck live around it and under it. . . . [M]y stenographers pencil works in rhythem [sic] with the song of the birds singing out, so why worry? . . ."