Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 145

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WILSON, EDITH BOLLING. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragments from the working draft of her book, My Memoir, in pencil, each page numbered in holograph: "668," "1089," and "1252." 3 pages, 8vo, ruled paper, written on rectos of three sheets; page 668 mounted to board trimmed to size, faint scattered staining. Np, circa 1939

Additional Details

"Chapter 14 / The forenoon of Dec. 4, 1918, my husband . . . stood on the bridge of the 'George Washington' watching the fluttering flags on the Hoboken Pier grow smaller & the music fainter as we dropped down the river to the Sea. . . ."
with--Photograph, unsigned, bust portrait by Genthe, showing her looking up [image appears on frontispiece of My Memoir, Indianapolis and New York, 1939]. 12x9 inches; mounted to larger board. Nd.