Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 117
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER. Two Autograph Letters Signed, to cashier I.N. Weed, concerning financial advice and his account balance. The first, declining to send his accounting book, requesting a $500 loan to pay a debt to neighbor [Judge John J.?] Monell, inquiring about how to endorse a certain financial document, and, in a postscript, giving travel plans. The second, sending a financial document [not present], requesting an account balance and the amounts and dates of due notes. On third page is printed a letter, unsigned, giving an elaborately ornate and generalized apology. Together 3 1/4 pages. 8vo, written on two folded sheets, the first on onionskin; short closed separations at folds. "Idlewild" [Cornwall-on-Hudson], 2; 12 December 1861

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". . . With means which we cannot readily turn into cash, I believe I must avail myself, once more, of your kind offer to 'discount' for me--needing $500 more to meet our present emergencies. . . . "
With--10 items: Nathaniel Parker Willis (8). Group of 8 checks, each accomplished and Signed, "N PWillis," to himself or others in various amounts drawn on the Quassaick Bank. Each 3 3/4x7 1/4 inches. Newburgh, 1858-60 • Cornelia Grinnell Willis. ALS, to I.N. Weed, concerning her expectation to have $100 by the end of next week. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, with integral blank. "Idlewild," 13 November 1861 • William Ellery Channing. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, working draft of his poem "To a Great Singer" in three stanzas beginning "The July fires that blaze upon the street." 1 page, small 4to. Np, nd.