Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 108
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
WILDER, THORNTON. Autograph Letter Signed, to Richard Herd ("Dear Mr. Herd"), reporting his inability to attend a Players Pipe Night honoring Fredric and Florence March due to illness, and promising to send a telegram to his old friends. 1 1/4 pages, small square 8vo, personal stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; "Richard Herd" in another hand in blue ink at bottom verso, horizontal fold. Hamden, 4 Noveber 1970

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". . . I wish I could be there among those who are expressing their affection, admiration, and gratitude to those splendid artists. . . . [T]oward the end of the summer, I lost the vision of one eye and the other was threatened . . . ."