Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 1,000
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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR WILSON THE AUTHOR WILSON, WOODROW. Autograph Letter Signed, to Barton A. Konkle, thanking him movingly for his appreciative letter, explaining that authors rarely know how their writing is being received. 2 pages, 8vo, written on two separate sheets; remnants of prior mounting at upper and lower edges verso, horizontal folds. (TFC) Princeton, 23 October 1898
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"It is certainly one of the rewards of authorship to get such a letter as yours . . . .
"A writer of course never sees his audience; he does not know how many he is reaching or in what way he is being regarded by his readers. He must keep heart amidst the embarrassing silence, and try to believe that what he writes is at any rate worth saying and deserving of an audience, for the sake of the truth or the cheer or the right moral impulse . . . . It's a lonely business at best. Your letter . . . . heartens me and touches me very near the quick."
In 1896, Wilson's biography, George Washington, was published by Harper & Brothers.