[Rarebooks] FS: Lady or the Tiger LETTER to Hans Brinker

[Charles Agvent]

STOCKTON, Frank R. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Mary Mapes Dodge. 
The Holt Convent Station, 28 September 1898. A four-page AUTOGRAPH 
LETTER SIGNED in full with to author Mary Mapes Dodge on one 9" x 7" 
sheet of paper folded to make four pages. Stockton begins with a lengthy 
question about why he hasn't heard from her: "I mean why should I be 
steeped in this ignorance? I don't believe that a summer has passed 
since the early seventies, or late sixties without my knowing something 
about you." He mentions his and his wife's aborted plans to go to Europe 
due to the [Spanish-American] war. "Mrs. Stockton and I have both been 
well, and although we have heard a good deal about a man named Alger 
[Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger] we have also heard a good 
deal about two others, named Dewey [Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, 
the only person in United States history to have attained the rank] and 
Schley [Commodore Winfield Scott Schley] and we rest content." Stockton 
concludes by hoping to hear from Dodge, "even if written by your 
secretary." Frank R. Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best 
known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were 
widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century, including 
the well-known "The Lady, or the Tiger?". Mary Mapes Dodge was the 
recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the 
nineteenth century, best known as the author of HANS BRINKER, OR THE 
SILVER SKATES and as the longtime editor of ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE. 
Stockton was assistant editor at the magazine from 1873 to 1881, working 
with Mary Mapes Dodge. A superb association connecting two popular 19th 
century American writers for children. Expected creases from mailing. 
About Fine. (#020644)        $500

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