Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 1,041
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
IRVING, WASHINGTON. Autograph Letter Signed, to later critic William Alfred Jones, thanking him for sending a copy of a book which is "in a department of literature very much to my taste, and in which you have proved yourself a master," and saying of him that "your worthy father was one of the first to applaud and encourage my early attempts at authorship . . ." 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet; minor soiling. Sunnyside, 10 May 1857