Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 349

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Autograph Letter Signed, "H.B. Stowe," to "Dear Mr. H M," acknowledging receipt of a check of $100 for two installments of "Pussy Willow" and promising to send another installment. 1 page, 8vo, quad ruled paper; short closed tears at left edge repaired verso with tissue, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso, horizontal folds. Hartford, 26 February [1869?]
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"I acknowledge & confess to the receipt of a cheque for . . . two last nos [numbers] of Pussy Willow--so far so good.

"Now . . . if you have got a picture of that sort ready well & good, it will do quite as well.

"I am detained yet in the land of ice & snow but shall hope to sail for the land where everlasting spring abides next Tuesday & not return till the middle of April--Shall try to send one more number before I go."

"Pussy Willow" was published in 1870 under the title Little Pussy Willow.

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.