[Rarebooks] FS: A CLUTCH OF LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS

[Norman Kane]

MORRIS, GEORGE P.  LETTER SIGNED, HOME JOURNAL OFFICE, AUG. 4, 1855, TO [JOHN] NEAL, REFUSING TO PUBLISH A LETTER ATTACKING THE "CRAYON" MAGAZINE (which began publication in 1855.)

BROWN,  [DR.] JOHN.  A.L.S., 23 RUTLAND ST., EDINBURGH, N.D., ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF 20 POUNDS FOR 1863, '64 & '65. "I REALLY AM ASHAMED FOR TAKING SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE", &c. (Author of "Rab & His Friends.") 

BURDETTE, ROBT. J.  A.L.S., INDIANOLA, DEC. 14, 1893 ON HOTEL (Central 
House) letterhead.  "Yours ... has chased me across a handful of commonwealths and caught up with me in the good old Hawkeye State..."

ANNOUNCEMENT: A READING BY MR. G. W. CABLE.  "Tickets may be obtained of Mrs. J. M. Barrie." INSCRIBED AT TOP, "WITH MRS. BARRIE'S COMPLIMENTS."

BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE. SIGNED HALF TITLE FOR THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION OF "WEST AMERICAN HISTORY."

WILSON, JAS. GRANT.  A.N.S., 1886

LENOX, JAS.  A.N.S TO THE N.Y.BOOKSELLER, GOWANS, 1869. THANKS HIM FOR SENDING BOOKS ON APPROVAL. (N.Y. PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDER)

BRYCE, JAS. (Author of the influential "American Commonwealth.") 3 A.L's S., V.D. "MY DEAR GARRISON," 9 PAGES IN ALL.  (Speaks admiringly of an American portrait artist. Has "all but finished" the revision of the "American Commonwealth," He has written a new chapter on the Tammany Ring. Writes of  "the difficulties which I have had to contend with in political [&] official life" in finishing the revision.  Speaks 
admiringly of Prince Kropotkin, "albeit [that he is] an anarchist by profession." &c, &c.  
Very good content. One letter edge-worn.

LEWIS A[LFRED] H[ENRY].  T.L.S, OCT., 1896, ON THE JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU, LETTERHEAD, TO H. J. BROWN, N.Y. JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT. (JOURNALISM GOSSIP, MENTIONS HEARST. LEWIS WROTE "WOLFVILLE," &c.) 

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