Author: BONNER, Robert (1824-99)
Title: Signature
Description: This Irish-American journalist worked his way up at a New York financial weekly, the "Merchant's Ledger," until he bought it in 1851 -- and as publisher renamed it the "New York Ledger" and transformed it into a successful literary paper, featuring articles by well-known writers; it was for him that Charles dickens wrote "Hunted Down," the only story he ever wrote for an American newspaper, for which he was supposedly paid five thousand dollars; later he became one of the most famous horsemen in America, buying and racing trotting horses. Bold signature in brown ink on a 2¼" X 1" slip, n.p. n.y. Near fine. With small contemporary newspaper clipping about him. .

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