Original Manuscript of "Homes for the Working Man" + Facsimile of A Message to Garcia by HUBBARD, Elbert

Ephemera. Very Good. Contained in a leather folder. Worn spine. One flap detached.

1. A Message to Garcia. Ltd., #198 of 495, Signed by Elbert Hubbard II East Aurora: Roycroft, 1926. A reproduction of the original manuscript, single sheets printed on Imperial Japan Vellum, 30 x 23 cm. 2. Typewritten original sheets from Elbert Hubbard. Certified by Elbert Hubbard II as to authenticity. Corrected in longhand pencil by Elbert Hubbard. Manuscript sheets are from Homes for Working Men. 6 pages. 22 x 14 cm. In a folder entitled Original Manuscript of Elbert Hubbard. No record of this title. Possibly a "preachment"/advertising brochure for Charles Maines, homebuilder in Flint, Michigan, since his name is mentioned as being a genius in house construction. Certificate of authenticity is 21.5 x 14 cm, mounted on card 30 x 23 cm. With a cancelled cheque stapled to certificate signed in pen by Elbert Hubbard, dated Nov. 5, 1900. 3. A Message to Garcia. East Aurora: The House of Hubbard: (Elbert Hubbard II), (1952). 15 x 9 cm. 16 p. Card covers. 4. Dirlam, H. Kenneth. The Story of "A Message to Garcia". Mansfield: author, 1960. 26 x 18 cm. 22 p. With fold-out broadside of Dirlam's article on "The Philistine" from the Buffalo Evening News 1945 in pocket in back. Illustrated. With author's business card stapled to title-page, and typed letter signed by Elbert Hubbard II thanking the owner for sending him a clipping of Dirlam's forthcoming book on Hubbard. 5. The Boy A Potentiality. (Printed with) A Hundred-Point Man. 1 sheet with four panels folding out. 17 x 10 cm. printed by the House of Hubbard (Elbert Hubbard II). c. 1955? 6. The Elbert Hubbard Library-Museum East Aurora N.Y. 1 sheet, folded to make 4 pages. Printed by Roycrofters. With separate page on the formal opening of the Library-Museum October 20, 1962. Plus news clipping on the library. 7. Envelope from Elbert Hubbard II "The House of Hubbard", addressed to Harold Donohue, the owner of the items. 8. Photocopy of letter from Elbert Hubbard II to Harold Donohue, October 10, 1961, in which Hubbard suggests Donohue "photostat" the letter and return the original to him. Letter is from Elbert Hubbard to his second wife Alice, referring to his visit to London, Ontario and Dr. R. Maurice Bucke. 9. News clipping of Harold Donohue's donation of one of Hubbard's original manuscripts to the University of Western Ontario ("Canada and Reciprocity").