Autograph letter signed ("J. R. Lowell") to "Unknown Collector!"; Cambridge, 9 March 1860
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 full pages, 8vo. An amusing response to an autograph collector requesting an autograph manuscript poem (and who apparently sent an inkstand along with his request): "... You shouldn't have sent me the inkstand–for I don't like being deadheaded, & moreover I learn from an.....