Nov 01, 2001 - Sale 1912

Sale 1912 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BURTON, RICHARD F. Autograph Letter Signed, "R. F. Burton," to Theodore Watts, discussing the proofs to Etruscan Bologna, his travels to Trieste and a prospective trip to India and financial matters. 4 pages, folded 8vo sheet; pin holes, minor staining, vertical centerfold.<\t>Trieste, "Xmas Day" [1875]

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"We arrived here yesterday after a very pleasant trip of three weeks . . . we shall start on Jan. 15 for India, my chest wants a change and the Red Sea will soon set me right . . . Smith & Elder are very slow about sending me proof sheets of Etruscan Bologna. I expected to find the whole waiting for me . . . If you could hurry them I should feel very much obliged . . ."<