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ARCHIVE OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) with Fine Content to Frank Holme with Material...

ARCHIVE OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) with Fine Content to Frank Holme with Material from the Bandar Log Press

by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

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Riverdale on the Hudson and New York City, 4 January 1902 and 29 July 1904. Letters. The Bandar Log Press envelope is quite fragile with chipping along the edges. The remaining material is Near Fine. Archive of 6 pieces including two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED with excellent content, one letter referencing a famous passage of his and the other a poignant unpublished letter pertaining to his wife Olivia who had died the previous month. Both letters by Clemens are on small (3-1/2" x 5" and 3-1/2" x 6") pieces of mourning stationery written to John Francis "Frank" Holme, a newspaper sketch artist who covered the trials of Adolph Luetgert for the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. Holme was also a writer and printer who founded a publishing endeavor called the Bandar Log Press. Clemens and Holme were friends, and Clemens was among those who contributed financially to the project. The earliest letter from Clemens to Holme is dated 4 January 1902 from Riverdale on the Hudson. Clemens moved his family to Riverdale from… Read More
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ARCHIVE OF FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)TO ARCHIBALD...

ARCHIVE OF FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)TO ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

by [MacLEISH, Archibald] POULIN, Al

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Hamden, CT, 1974 - 1977. Letters. One typed letter missing the first page. Near Fine. Four handwritten letters and four typed letters, all SIGNED variously in full or as "Al," on different stationery, all addressed to "Mr. MacLeish," totaling 15 pages. Poulin covers much ground including his open-heart surgery, a proposed anthology of American poetry to coincide with the Bicentennial (Poulin had edited the 1971 anthology CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY), discussion of various forthcoming BOA publications including W. D. Snodgrass's THE FÜHRER BUNKER and Anthony Piccione's ANCHOR DRAGGING for which MacLeish wrote the foreword, comments on what it means to be a poet and the State University of New York at Brockport's The Writer's Forum series (Poulin taught there), as well as much else including MacLeish's effect on Poulin: "I hope you know that you continue to be a profound influence on many of us here-- we who continue to envy your serenity and wisdom and humanity and artistry. Increasingly I believe… Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

by BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett

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Used - Light spotting to letter, some soiling at very bottom of letter covering up part of the words of the postscript. Letter examined
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[Rome], [April 1859]. Framed Letter. Light spotting to letter, some soiling at very bottom of letter covering up part of the words of the postscript. Letter examined out of frame and no other defects observed. Very Good. Handwritten letter SIGNED "Elizabeth B. Browning" on a 3-3/8" x 5-1/4" sheet of paper matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Browning has written "43 Bocca di Leone" as a return address. The letter is addressed to a Miss Shepard. In part: "I send the beef-tea, & will you let me know tomorrow when more shall be wanted -- & whether the gelatina made of chicken would be a desirable change?-- Use me, I beg of you-- I do congratulate you all, out of a full heart--." A postscript: "One word of verbal message to say how she is today." An interesting insight into the domestic side of the famous poet. EBB to Ada Shepard (4382), as published in THE BROWNINGS' CORRESPONDENCE, 26, 117, where the date is given as Sunday [?10] [April 1859: "Conjectural date… Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

by RUKEYSER, Muriel

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New York, 20 December 1936. Letter. Folds from mailing. Near Fine. Two-page handwritten letter on both sides of personal stationery (7" x 10-1/4") to Philip B. Rice of Kenyon College SIGNED "Muriel." In part: "I'm all over that stage, and would probably be quite unrecognizable to you now, although I'm a lot more recognizable to myself." She asks if Rice had finished his long poem and if she could see it when he did. "I've always been sorry there wasn't another time, so that I might have taken advantage of what you said, and showed you some recent poems. I'm very stuck now in the prose, which went along until I got out of bed, and then stopped short." With envelope addressed in Rukeyser's hand.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

by SCHWARTZ, Delmore

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Cambridge, 22 July 1941. Letter. Lightly creased and toned. Near Fine. Full-page handwritten letter on one side of a 7" x 10-1/2" sheet of paper to poet and anthologist Alfred Kreymborg SIGNED "Delmore Schwartz." Schwartz is delighted that Kreymborg wants to use his poem "Shenandoah" in an anthology and states that publisher James Laughlin of New Directions has no objection to it being used. "The fee is all right; although in general, I object to the way that small fry and young poets are underpaid by anthologists and subjected to a sliding scale. But I've already been paid well twice for this piece."
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) by a 17-Year-Old Future Pulitzer Winner

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) by a 17-Year-Old Future Pulitzer Winner

by LURIE, Alison

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Cambridge, [10 July 1943]. Letter. Creases from mailing. About Fine. Superb, very early three-page handwritten letter on two 5-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheets of personal stationery to a former teacher and mentor SIGNED "Alison." Lurie, just 17 at the time, had just begun her freshman year at Radcliffe College: "I've tried not to write until I got more used to everything, until all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place -- but they don't. I won't admit it, even to myself, but I don't like Radcliffe." She finds that her fellow students "talk for hours about nothing at all," and her English composition teacher is "a horrid slap-you-on-the-back conservative practical sort of man who goes in for punctuation and research." She discusses dating Harvard men: "they're all exactly the same, every one." With a HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a 12-line poem titled "Spider's Web" (likely never published) which Lurie sent with the explanation: "You'll be the first person to see it -- there's no one here I can show it to. I feel… Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

by AIKEN, Conrad

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25 June 1917. Letter. Lightly creased and toned. About Fine. An early four-page handwritten letter on one 6-1/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of paper folded into fours to American poet Orrick Johns, explaining his comparison of Johns to Edwin Arlington Robinson and responding to a comparison of his 1916 book of poetry, THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY, to the writing of Charles Baudelaire. In part: "I was delighted to get your letter.... As to that echo of Robinson, perhaps I should have been more just if I had said similarity instead of echo: though even so I did not mean to put too much emphasis on the idea. In two or three of your things I felt something of Robinson's trick of veiled reference, inuendo, coupled with terseness of rhythm: certainly, nothing to worry about! I quite agree with you in your feeling about him. I admire rather than like him. I imagine that if I were drunk I should call him a Missing Puritan. You are the third person to link Forslin with Baudelaire. I don't know whether to be provoked… Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Thomas Bailey Aldrich

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

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Hartford. Letter. Near Fine. A fine two-page handwritten letter on one side of two 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" sheets of paper SIGNED "Mark" to author Thomas Bailey Aldrich letting him know that he must cancel their plans for a visit by Aldrich and his wife to them due to Mrs. Clemens's health, going into detail about doctors and the health of his wife with a promise to reschedule. In part: "We are both grieved with this verdict, yet it was to be expected, for Mrs. Clemens's pulse ranged from 130 to 150 during one night & a part of two days, & consequently the consumption of her forces (considering the poverty of the stock in the first place), was necessarily very great.... This morning she developed a virulent quinsy --an odd thing to be glad about, & yet the gang of us were never gladder in our lives than when the physician delivered this news, for we had been feeling dead certain that the diptheria was back again & disaster hanging over us.... Being night-nurse, I must cut short & go on duty, now." Olivia… Read More
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT and TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT and TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)

by MacLEISH, Archibald and FITZGERALD, Robert

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Hamden, CT, 27 February 1978 and 4 March 1978. Letters. Near Fine. Two handwritten two-page letters on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet SIGNED "Robert" to MacLeish along with a page of notes handwritten in pencil by MacLeish and a small card in pencil and ink written by MacLeish. The notes refer to consciousness with MacLeish mentioning HAMLET and Beethoven: "Works of art not only suggest consciousness in others, they demonstrate it." Fitzgerald's letters are about his famous translation of the THE ODYSSEY and MacLeish's reaction to it as well as identification of Homer with his hero Odysseus, and in context is surely a response to a query by MacLeish regarding one line in the poem. In part: "The thing is that in the poem Homer identifies himself with Odysseus who famously knew the world.... He endows his hero with his own powers. Alkinoös thus observes that these powers belong to a man who knows the world.... The dramatic CONTEXT makes my rendering a true rendering. I hope this leaves it less… Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

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Used - Typical folds from mailing. About Fine
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Concord, 4 November n.y. [1867?]. Letter. Typical folds from mailing. About Fine. A 2-1/4-page letter on a 9-3/4" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper folded in half, addressed to [Cyrus Augustus] Bartol regarding a change of dinner party plans with Charles Eliot Norton and Katharine Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley on account of the death of Governor John Albion Andrew (1818-1867), with hopes to re-schedule. SIGNED "R. W. Emerson."
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) TO HIS DAUGHTER

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) TO HIS DAUGHTER

by KENT, Rockwell

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New York, 8 Dec. 1938. Letter. Normal creases from folding, about Fine. Superb and touching one-page letter in Kent's minuscule hand to his 25-year-old daughter Clara expressing his disappointment that she will not be spending Christmas with him. In full: "It was about 12 years ago when, out of consideration for your mother, I gave up claiming my family for Christmas Day and set New Years Day as our day for Christmas celebration. That this gave you children two Christmases we hoped was doubly nice for you; and that it gave us Christmas--though a week later--with my children was a happiness that we planned for and looked forward to. Only the absence far from home of Frances [his second wife whom he would divorce in 1939] or me or both of us has made a New Years' pass uncelebrated as the family Christmas. All this you know. And that, knowing it, you pass up your father's Christmas for a New Year at a friend's is something that I will not forget nor easily forgive. That Frances is deeply hurt at your… Read More
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TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)

TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)

by SANTAYANA, George

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Used - Creases from mailing with a short split and paperclip stain to the longer letter. Near Fine with excellent content
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Rome, 1925 & 1927. Letter. Creases from mailing with a short split and paperclip stain to the longer letter. Near Fine with excellent content. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED as "G. Santayana" by this Spanish-born American poet and philosopher who is thought to be the originator of the oft-used expression: "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Both letters are to S(harpless) D(odson) Green, American educator. The one-page letter is an affirmative response to a request to sign one of his works for Green. The more interesting two-page letter on both sides of one sheet is a response to Green's solicitation of a letter offering his pupils life advice and is addressed "To the Group of Young People in the Trenton High School who have chosen me for a temporary 'Guardian.'" The letter begins: "When I was a young man I once went to give a lecture at Bryn Mawr College, and as I entered the hall I heard a voice gasping in a distressed whisper: 'But he is bald!' ... One man is seldom a good model… Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising Theodore Roethke

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising Theodore Roethke

by WRIGHT, James

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Seattle, 24 April 1954. Letter. About Fine. Fine, single-spaced typed letter on one side of a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to poet and teacher John Crowe Ransom SIGNED "Jim Wright" about permission to reprint a poem first published in THE KENYON REVIEW. Wright, 26 at the time, was a former student of Ransom's at Kenyon College and here talks about how engaging graduate school (the University of Washington) is. "You will be glad to hear that Mr. Roethke is apparently over the worst of his illness, and is teaching again. He is as brilliant and stimulating as ever. It is a curious experience to work in his class. He knows, mysteriously perhaps, a thousand practical ways of conveying to students the necessity for formal mastery in poetry. He is capable of taking fantastic pains with a single small exercise; and his exercises, even the small ones, are always difficult and engaging. Finally, I think he is the best reader of poetry I have ever heard, with the exception of Dylan Thomas." Pencil notation in… Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

by MacLEISH, Archibald

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Used - Some wrinkling and expected wear. Very Good
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[Cambridge, MA], 28 October 1951. Letters. Some wrinkling and expected wear. Very Good. TYPED LETTER SIGNED as "A. MacLeish" on personal Harvard stationery to Charles Mullen of the Florida Grower Press apologizing for sending 6 of his volumes of poetry to him and explaining why he did so. With two small ink corrections.
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