JAMES GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD Autograph Manuscript Signed GPR

Sale 2584 - Lot 111

Unsold

Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250

JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD. Autograph Manuscript Signed, "G.P.R. James," draft of his 6-stanza poem "My Avocation," sent to William Jordan. 1 page, folio; minor loss at right edge from seal tear, first six lines written on slip of paper pasted to upper edge of sheet, remnants of paper hinging along right edge verso, folds, holograph address panel and wax seal remnants on verso. Np, 21 December 1835

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

"Half way through man's allotted space, I stand upon the brink / Of latter life's sere autumn tide, and pause awhile to think--- / To think, and ask 'mongst other things that I through life have seen, / What--had the choice been left to me--what, what I would have been? / Of all professions and degrees on this side of the flood, / Oh! make me but a forester in some old shady wood! . . . ."