HUGHES, Thomas

Autograph letter signed ("Thos. Hughes") to Winthrop Wetherbee; "80 Park Street W.", 17 December 1877

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, ruled 8vo. Fine. Item #409412

Hughes responds to a request for his autograph: "... It must I suppose be always a great pleasure to an author to hear that his books have made him friends abroad... especially when such news comes from your country in which I have so many folk I claim fond of already..." Winthrop Wetherbee (1863-1949), American autograph collector and poet, attended Harvard where he was editor of 'The Harvard Advocate'; he was later Secretary of the Papyrus Club in Boston. (BA).

Price: $200.00