[Rarebooks] Julian Hawthorne, TLS, Temagami Mine fraud.

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

Hawthorne, Julian. Typed letter, signed. Oct. 24, 1908. Over 300 words soliciting funds for the Temagami Mine scam that cost Hawthorne a year in federal prison. Hawthorne claimed that he was used by his partners (who were never convicted), that he didn't know the scheme was not legitimate. Most commentators today agree that he was duped. From the letter: "the time has now arrived when I want more money than the sort of literature I have produced can provide....For the time being I have given up literature, and am devoting my sole attention to Temagami" After prison, Hawthorne wrote The Subterranean Brotherhood, a bizarre, guilt laden indictment of the justice system in which he insisted that prisons should be abolished and criminals reformed by love. Folded twice for mailing, a Fine letter. Included are two letters (from the 1950's) from a relative of the addressee to John S. Mayfield,a collector (Dickinson, 1986)  who had asked for more information about the Temagami solicitation.    $175

  

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