Nov 30, 2006 - Sale 2095

Sale 2095 - Lot 291

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Autograph Letter Signed, "H. B. Stowe," to an unnamed Major, informing him that Mr. Norton has requested that she "fix terms for my pieces since May 1st," requesting that the Christian Union pay her what is owed and if she receives payment before the fall she will continue to submit pieces for publication. With a lengthy postscript advising that she has sent a piece on "Hot Weather religion" and inquiring after the address of the sanitarium for sick children. 3 pages, folded 8vo sheet; usual folds. Np, 11 July no year

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" . . . I will continue to write as before & send pieces for any thing or nothing as they may feel able. I am willing to give six months or a years service if desired. In short I am willing to do all I can to help the paper . . . Who is the acting editor now, & how is the paper getting on? . . ."