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STEIN, GERTRUDE. Two items, each Signed, to paper manufacturer Keith Baker: Autograph Letter * Autograph Note. The letter, sending a signed statement to paste into his copy of Ida: A Novel. The note: "For Keith Baker's copy of Ida. Written over a period of three years and finished last year in Belignin par Belley, Ain." Together 2 pages, 4to or 7x3 1/2 inches, quad ruled paper, the letter with "Bilignin par Belley (Ais)" stamped in ink at upper edge; folds. With the original envelope, addressed in holograph, with cancelled 2.50 franc postage-stamp in blue featuring the head of Ceres in profile. [Belley], 20 April 1941 [from postmark]
"I have just had your letter and I would gladly inscribe your books, but sending them . . . at this moment is a good deal of a risk so I am sending you in this paper inscriptions that you can paste into your edition and so avoid all possibility of losing your books."
