Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 219
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Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
DREISER, THEODORE. Autograph Letter Signed, "Dreiser," to Ernest Kent Coulter ("Dear Coulter"), inviting him to visit his new retreat in Mount Kisco, NY, and remarking that the troubles that confront the Children's Society [Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] are no different in degree from those confronting everyone. 2 pages, 4to, personal stationery, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; minor soiling at folds. [New York], 29 May 1927
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". . . I breakfast as a rule at 9:30 or 10-- and thereafter drift on meal-less until seven . . . .
"I have followed your fortunes because I have known you were directing the Children's Society. Sometimes, because of public news, I have smiled over your difficulties--troublesome no doubt, but not much different in degree to the ills that assail us all."
Ernest Kent Coulter (1871-1952) was an American activist, journalist and author, who, between 1914 and 1936, served as general manager of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.