Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
CHRISTY, HOWARD CHANDLER. Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed, to daughter of Rear Admiral R.E. Peary, Marie E. Peary, regarding several literary and other matters including a trip to Europe. 6 pages, 8vo, personal stationery. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand. with ink sketches of his horseback ride up the Matterhorn and his reaction to reading a letter. "The Barracks, Duncan Falls, OH," [from postmark: 20 September 1913]
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". . . I don't blame you for being in love with your mother. She looks like a dandy woman and is certainly stunning looking . . . . I should say you were pretty well equipped in parents . . . ."
Christy (1873-1952) was an American painter and illustrator of books by James Whitcomb Riley and others.