[Rarebooks] FS: John Burroughs 2 Letters to Edward Bok for a tribute to Henry Ward Beecher

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BURROUGHS, John. TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to Edward Bok, 
Editor of the Brooklyn Magazine, regarding a tribute to Henry Ward 
Beecher. West Park, NY, 1887. Two 1-1/2 page AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED to 
Edward Bok, then editor of the BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, regarding a 
contribution to a memorial volume for the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, 
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, who died in 1887. In the first 
letter, dated 16 March 1886 [obviously Burroughs meant 1887 as Beecher 
was alive in 1886], Burroughs promises to try to contribute something to 
the volume, "but as I cannot always make my pen subservient to my will I 
can only promise conditionally.... If I succeed to my satisfaction you 
can have the ms within the next ten days." In the second letter, he 
states, "Accept my thanks for the two copies of the Beecher Memorial 
volume.... You have done a rare service to the memory of this great man 
by this collecting into a volume these tributes to his worth from so 
many of his distinguished contemporaries." Fine. 		$500.00

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