Nov 09, 2004 - Sale 2021

Sale 2021 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BURROUGHS, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. Bok, on cultivating flowers and comparing wild flowers to poetry. 1 page, 8vo sheet; nicely matted and framed. West Park, 12 May 1893
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"I cultivate no flowers of any sort. I leave that to my wife. The rose & the honeysuckle are my favorite. Of wild flowers I am very fond. Wild flowers are poetry, cultivated flowers are prose. One is a spontaneous thought, the other a forced and labored product."