[Rarebooks] FS: Archive of Henry Beston Letters

[Charles Agvent]

BESTON, Henry. ARCHIVE OF 4 AUTOGRAPHED LETTERS SIGNED.  A fine archive 
of 4 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED in Beston's neat hand consisting of 10 
pages and 2 hand-addressed and SIGNED envelopes along with a small 
photograph of Beston and his wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, annotated in 
another hand on the rear. Three of the letters are addressed to Wilmot 
Brewer and one to Brookes More, both of Hingham, Massachusetts, where 
Beston lived. Brewer edited a collection of poems by More and wrote a 
brief biography of him. In the letter to More, Beston thanks him for 
sending his translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. In a letter to Brewer 
he thanks him for his book on More: "In days so confused and really 
terrible as these, it is sustaining to the spirit to read of one who has 
dedicated his life to beauty and the works of the muses." In another 
letter to Brewer dated 28 December 1941 Beston mentions World War II and 
thanks him for his "most readable study of the place and influence of 
the METAMORPHOSES." In the longest letter Beston comments on a book 
about Virgil: "The book does just what a book ought first of all to do, 
it enlarges life, throwing good wood on the fire of the imagination and 
stirring one's interest in the variety and richness of the human 
spirit." Near Fine.

Henry Beston was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the 
author of THE OUTERMOST HOUSE, 1928, considered a classic of both 
writing about nature and about Cape Cod. Spiritually shaken by his 
experiences in World War I, which included being aboard an American 
destroyer during combat engagement and sinking, Beston retreated to the 
outer beach at Eastham in search of peace and solitude, which resulted 
in the creation of his classic. Beston is considered one of the fathers 
of the modern environmental movement. Rachel Carson said that Beston was 
the only author who ever influenced her writing. (#018670)        $1,500.00

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