Author: BRYANT, William Cullen (1794-1878)
Title: Autograph Letter Signed / Unsigned Steel-Engraved Portrait
Description: This mainstay of the 19th century literary scene was a popular, influential liberal journalist and long-time editor of the "New York Evening Post," but is best remembered as a prolific poet whose best-known piece, "Thanatopsis," was written as a teenager. ALS, 2pp (lettersheet), 4" X 5¼", New York, NY, 21 November 1870. Addressed to Samuel Ellis. Very good. Mildly age toned and faintly foxed. Bryant grew up in a rambling Dutch Colonial farmhouse in Cummington, Massachusetts, eventually purchasing it himself, renovating and enlarging it for his use as a summer home and developing its large acreage. As this letter shows, he rented it out the rest of the year. "I enclose you a cheque for fifteen dollars," he writes renter Ellis. "I told you that if you would vacate the house in Cummington on the first of November I would stay that sum. I only regret that you were not able to leave it at the time we talked of -- the middle of October while the weather was yet mild. Mr. Taver informed me that you went on the first day of this month." Penned in his typical, spidery purple ink. An initialed postscript below in brown ink adds: "Please advise me of the receipt of the cheque. I send a Stamp for that purpose. WCB." Accompanied by a near fine 5½" X 8½" steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Bryant. .
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Title: Autograph Letter Signed / Unsigned Steel-Engraved Portrait
Description: This mainstay of the 19th century literary scene was a popular, influential liberal journalist and long-time editor of the "New York Evening Post," but is best remembered as a prolific poet whose best-known piece, "Thanatopsis," was written as a teenager. ALS, 2pp (lettersheet), 4" X 5¼", New York, NY, 21 November 1870. Addressed to Samuel Ellis. Very good. Mildly age toned and faintly foxed. Bryant grew up in a rambling Dutch Colonial farmhouse in Cummington, Massachusetts, eventually purchasing it himself, renovating and enlarging it for his use as a summer home and developing its large acreage. As this letter shows, he rented it out the rest of the year. "I enclose you a cheque for fifteen dollars," he writes renter Ellis. "I told you that if you would vacate the house in Cummington on the first of November I would stay that sum. I only regret that you were not able to leave it at the time we talked of -- the middle of October while the weather was yet mild. Mr. Taver informed me that you went on the first day of this month." Penned in his typical, spidery purple ink. An initialed postscript below in brown ink adds: "Please advise me of the receipt of the cheque. I send a Stamp for that purpose. WCB." Accompanied by a near fine 5½" X 8½" steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Bryant. .
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Price: US$ 295.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51160
- Book number: 51160
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