Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FROM "THE WATER WITCH" COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, a fragment of his working draft of The Water Witch. 2 pages, 3 1/4x8 inches, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; a few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. With Susan Fenimore Cooper's autograph attestation written on a separate card: "From the 'Water-Witch,' written at the 'Casa Tasso,' Sorrento, in 1828. . . . Aug. 1889." Sorrento, 1828
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With--Group of three brief letters, each Signed by an American writer, each to an unnamed admirer: Mary Eleanor Wilkins. Autograph Letter Signed, "Mary E. Wilkins": "Yours, with pleasant remembrances." 1 page, 12mo, personal stationery; mounted. Randolph, August 1896 • Thomas Dixon, Jr. Typed Letter Signed, sending his autograph. 1 page, square 8vo, "Elmington Manor" stationery. Dixondale, 20 July 1903 • Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Autograph Letter Signed: "With warm regards of the author." With an Autograph Postscript: "After a Nice Chicken!" 1 page, square 12mo. Np, 26 Jan[uary] 1919.