Autograph letter signed ("Rich. H. Dana, Jr."), to the publishers James T. Fields; n.p., n.d. ("Friday")
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo. Regarding a dinner invitation. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo. Regarding a dinner invitation. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, light gray paper, vignette of "Room in which the immortal Shakespeare was born, Stratford on Avon," integral second leaf neatly inlaid, accompanied by small engraved portrait of Daniel (inlaid and stained). Daniel responds to an autograph request, listing the books he.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, remnants of brown masking tape at lower fore-corners and top edges. The artist writes (translated from the French): "I send you my wishes for the New Year and I think from the bottom of my heart that it will bring you.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 and 8 pages, 4to, on ruled notebook paper (of three different kinds). Rambling letters on literary matters. Farrell writes of "the number of 'average' Americans who want me to get the Nobel Prize" and of his plans "to issue a full length magazine of.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 14 pages, all but one quarto in size and all but one single-spaced; written from Paris and Toulon, 23 February 1931 to 27 January 1932, the correspondence relating to the book and its publication, etc.; one letter with marginal fraying, another a bit wrinkled, and.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, single-spaced, with a couple of holograph corrections, with envelope. For most of the letter Ford responds to queries from Hinton regarding the publication of several of his books. Towards the end Ford writes: "... I think 'The Good Soldier' is my best.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel, a bifolium. In French. A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies (what he calls "monsters"). Bocquillot answers that in some cases the deformity is.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 4to, single-spaced. In the TNS of Jan. 16 Gardner writes that he did receive the copy of Martin's novel 'The Stolen Jew'. The TLS of July 13 is devoted to Gardner's explanation of why he can't write a letter to the 'New.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 12mo, integral blank leaf, in French. A charming social note: "I have had no news of you since the immediate reply I made to your letter... Did you not receive that reply? I told you as plainly as possible, but I asked you.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 6 pages, 4to; and 2 1/2 pages, folio, two of the manuscripts on stationery with engraved vignettes. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. To different recipients regarding social invitations (three cards), photographs of himself (one letter and one card), theatre tickets (one card), the Author's Society Pension Fund (one letter), and his opinion of a playscript by another writer (one letter). (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, 8vo, a bifolium. Howe recommends a "Mrs. Morgan, wife of Col. Morgan, of Washington, D. C. She has given several recitations here, which have been highly thought of by competent judges, Col. [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson among the number..." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Howells sends his autograph: "... I hope your friends will not be too much puzzled to know why such a name should be wanted." Winthrop Wetherbee (1863-1949), American autograph collector and poet, attended Harvard where he was editor of 'The Harvard Advocate';.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Supplying his autograph: "Here is my autograph such as it is worth. Your friend must be a picker of straws to care for it." (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, ruled 8vo. 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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 8vo, a bifolium with the center fold reinforced with two strips of paper tape on front and back, else very good; written on embossed stationery of the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. Hughes responds to Gleason, sending his autograph: "... Autograph collecting is a......
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One full page, 8vo, on letterhead of "County Courts Circuit No. 9," tipped at edge to slightly larger sheet, a minor fold tear touching a letter. A humorous response to an autograph collector: "So wishing you all success in your effort to collect the autographs.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, with English translation. A fine letter on the death of his brother's wife and mentioning a lawsuit he has lost which deprives him of one of his novels. (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 7 pages, 4to, each a bifolium, and with its wax seal. The first letter has a seal hole affecting parts, but not the sense of three words, and a fold tear touching a few letters; on the fourth page Lawrence has written.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, inlaid at integral blank leaf. Lover writes: "You applied to me last December for my autograph. I was out of town, and immediately after Christmas I was extremely ill–all this will explain why your note had lain so long unanswered, then.–.....
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.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: 29 typed letters signed, 5 typed postcards signed, and 2 autograph postcards signed, all from McGuane to Oppenheimer, and one typed letter signed (carbon copy, with holograph note) from McGuane to William B. Decker (senior editor at Dial Press); written from Palo Alto (and.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 4to, on MacLeish's letterheads. The dictated Jan. 8 letter concerns a three-meeting course on the teaching of poetry that MacLeish would be giving at the College. The TLS is a thank-you letter for his enjoyable experience at the College: "It was a......
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Regarding a meeting. (A difficult handwriting!). (BA).
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 8vo, the TLS full-page and single-spaced. In the typed letter, Morris complains about the magazine censoring his language in a soon-to-be-published story: "What friggin' sort of nonsense is this? Copulating comics, triple-breasted Playmates, but no friggin' immortal litrachur, eh?..." (BA).