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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'">James,
Henry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Autograph Letter,
signed,</B> to Mrs. Sellar, Feb. 19th, (no year but 1885).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both sides of a small (4 1/2 x 3 5/8
inches) card.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"3 Bolton St. W.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear Mrs. Sellar, I am very sorry to say
your kind invitation for tomorrow finds me engaged.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have promised to go to poor Lowell at
dinner-time (you will have heard of his wife's death today) as he is completely
alone, & it is a time when I can sit with him for a couple of hours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With many thanks & regrets, very
truly yours, Henry James."<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Frances
Lowell had been semi-invalid for many years.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After one bad spell in 1880 James had
written to Charles Eliot Norton that Lowell ".....has a most child-like
temperament in his way of taking troubles, & relief from them".<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Fine letter. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$900<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">Up-Country Letters is a rare
bookselling concern operated by Mark Stirling.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We specialize in Nineteenth Century
American and English Literature with an emphasis on Transcendentalism;<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Emerson, Thoreau, and their
friends and associates.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most of our
inventory may be seen on-line at www.abebooks.com.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Any item may be returned within 10
days if found to be unsatisfactory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Postage is extra and items will be shipped at cost.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Payment may be made by most of the major
credit cards and personal checks are welcome.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"><EM><FONT size=2>Up-Country
Letters,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>P.O. Box
550367,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>South Lake Tahoe,
California<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>96155</FONT></EM></SPAN></H1>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"><EM><FONT size=2>(530) 577-2089<SPAN
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