Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 306

Price Realized: $ 78
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE ("ARTEMUS WARD"). Autograph Letter Signed, "Charles," to his mother, requesting news and reporting that his admiration for England grows. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on two sheets; lacking lower quarter of second leaf [not affecting text], remnants of prior mounting to verso of second page, horizontal folds. London, 7 October 1866

Additional Details

"It is a long time since I have had a letter from you. Now, answer this at once. . . . I am all right. . . . I like England more and more, the longer I stay here."

WITH--Charles Farrar Browne. Autograph Note Signed, "Artemus Ward," to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation), on the verso of his printed visiting card: "1 Box Pictures with care / . . . Deliver Monday . . . Boston / Mass." 1 page, 2 1/2x4 inches. Np, nd. Np, circa 1864.

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.