Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
"PLEASE KILL YOUR PROOF READER" PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY ("O. HENRY") Autograph Letter Signed, "O.H.," to Munsey's Magazine editor Richard Harding Davis ("Dear Bill"), in blue pencil, requesting that he be permitted to approve page proofs before publication. 1 page, 4to; mounted to larger board, marked toning overall, short tear at horizontal fold with some loss to salutation (but still legible); chemise and matching 1/4 morocco slipcase. (MRS) Np, "Thursday" no year
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"Will you be nice enough to let me go over the proofs of all my stories before they are published? The printer with his usual helfiredness, seems to always butcher the meaning by setting up words that do not appear in the MS.
"Also, please kill your proof reader."