Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE. Group of 8 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, "Katherine Anne Porter," or "Katherine Anne," or with initials, each to Mr. or Mrs. H.J. Barrett. Each letter or card with the original envelope. Format and condition varies. should be examined. Vp, 1957-60

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ALS, canceling an appointment so that she can finish some work: ". . . I am having the post office hold my mail, and only my editor will know where I am, not even my family. . . ." 3 pages, 8vo. 10 May 1958 TLS, enthusing about her garden, planning a trip to Darien and another to Massachusetts, and complaining that the publishers waited so long to let her autograph 300 copies of her The Old Order. 1 page, 4to; short separation at vertical fold. 10 April 1958 TLS, recounting her attendance at a performance of her Pale Horse Pale Rider, recommending her poem in Mademoiselle, and planning a meeting. 1 page, 4to. 5 November 1957 3 Autograph Postcards Signed, the first asking to write; the second sending an address; the last writing from Mexico "on a State Department job." Some toning, some dampstaining to a signature. [Woodbury, CT, 18 April 1958]; [Washington], 15 October 1959; [Mexico], 4 June 1960 2 Christmas cards Inscribed and Signed, each sending holiday greetings. December, 1957; 1958.