Tarrytown: 31 December 1836. Letter. Interesting three-page letter by the creator of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on a 16" x 10" sheet of paper folded in half and SIGNED at the conclusion "Washington Irving" to his nephew the Rev. Pierre Irving, author of THE LIFE.....
Sausalito, CA: 1986 - 1988. Letter. The eight-page TYPED MANUSCRIPT, titled "Pre-Columbian Apprentice" and SIGNED by Connell at the top of the first page, recounts his purchase of a 500 year-old Mayan ceramic figure and how that led him to collect pre-Columbian art and inspired him to write a novel.....
[Boston]: 23 October 1986. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on 8-1/2" x 11" lined paper to a Southern autograph dealer sending items for sale. In part: "Here are the little gimmicks signed.... Plus a [?] of a revision I'm working on. I'm not sure I have it right yet.....
[1880 - 1895]. First Edition. Manuscript. A collection of mostly handwritten manuscript poems and miscellaneous writings by Field, some SIGNED by him, all neatly inlaid on larger pieces of paper and beautifully bound in full black morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover, gilt rules and decorations on.....
San Francisco: 15 February 1961. Letter. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Bill Saroyan" on both sides of an 11-3/4" x 6-3/4" sheet of New York Central System En Route letterhead to Richard Tobin, editor at the SATURDAY REVIEW. In part: "Monday I was locked in taping the Omnibus show &.....
London: 15 June [1919]. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on a 9" x 5-1/2" sheet of paper integral with the envelope addressed in Yeats's hand on the verso to Robert S. Bene[?]. In full: "I am afraid there is no chance on meeting at present. I am here.....
Northampton, MA: 30 November 1888. Letter. A one-page letter in Cable's hand and SIGNED by him as "G. W. Cable" to Mrs. Henry M. Phillips. In full: "Thank you kindly for your invitation to meet Professor and Mrs. Fiske, but Mrs. Cable's health is delicate. She is virtually confined to.....
Washington DC: 18 January 1900. Letter. Fine handwritten four-page letter on all sides of a 9-1/2" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper folded in half to a Miss R. K. Crandall, written in answer to an inquiry about documents concerning American foreign affairs. In part: "Miss Donnely was instructed to copy.....
West Park, NY: January 16, [@1910]. Letter. A two-page handwritten letter to Ruth on two sides of a 10-1/4" x 6-1/2" sheet of paper folding to 5-1/8" x 6-1/2" with the writing on separate sides, SIGNED by Burroughs at the conclusion. He regrets that he cannot go to Wellesley this.....
[August - September 1914]. Manuscript. A 13-page working draft in pencil with corrections, mostly on rectos of 5-1/2" x 9" sheets, SIGNED by Burroughs at the conclusion. Written in response to a statement published by two German philosophers defending their country's invasion of Belgium at the outset of World War.....
[West Park, NY]: 17 October 1902. Manuscript. The first two stanzas of his best known poem SIGNED and dated by him at the conclusion. Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For, lo! my own.....
n.d. Letter. A two-page handwritten letter on both sides of a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" sheet of paper to a Mrs. Nesbitt in care of the Lee Keedick Bureau, Powys's business agent. Powys thanks Nesbitt for her invitation but says that his health is in a bad way. "I am in.....
[circa October 1933]. Manuscript. Holograph MANUSCRIPT, 23 pages written on rectos of separate 8-1/2" x 11" sheets, SIGNED in the byline. Complete draft of his essay titled "Detachment," with numerous additions and deletions throughout, and with a holograph note at upper right of the first page: "Published in 'The Aryan.....
1979. Letter. Three AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED to Al Berlinski, proprietor of Sun Dog Press. Includes: One page, signed "H.M.," sending issues of STROKES, with his business card, also with a note by Miller and INITIALED. Another letter, two pages on both sides of his personal stationery, discusses his eye troubles.....
Batemans: 19 August 1911. Letter. Superb handwritten, unpublished two-page letter on both sides of a 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded in half so that the writing is not back to back. Written to John Fleming, the husband of Kipling's sister, Alice ("Trix"), about Trix's mental health following her.....
Autograph. A 3-7/8" x 4-1/2" portion from the title page of a volume from Sue's WORKS that is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by him. Sue is best known for his works THE WANDERING JEW and THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS.
29 November 1916. Photograph. A 5" x 6-7/8" black-and-white photograph of a portrait painting of Moore laid down on a 6" x 8" mat. SIGNED by Moore on the mat and dated "Novermber 29, 1916."
Beverly Farms, MA: 24 August 1878. Document. On a 6-1/8" x 6-3/8" piece of lined paper the author has written the following six-line stanza from his poem "The Silent Melody": Sweet are the lips of all who sing When nature's music heather unsought But never yet could voice or string So truly shape our.....
1983 - 1984. Manuscript. Extensive archive for Baraka's "Anti-Nuclear Jazz Musical in Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." Includes two photocopied typescripts, one 52 pages and the other 47 pages; more than a dozen contracts for various members, most SIGNED by Baraka; 17 pages of autograph notes, in ink.....
@1984. Manuscript. TYPED MANUSCRIPT, seven pages with approximately 15 autograph emendations in pen, of the introduction to DAGGERS AND JAVELINS. The bottom of the last page is SIGNED "Amiri Baraka/Manhattan Community/Correctional Facility, Oct. 82."
[1984]. Softcover. A spiral notebook titled JOB BOOK by Baraka on a label on the front cover. About half of the book contains various notes by Baraka on a number of things, totaling 15 pages of writing and SIGNED within the text. Notes about travels, meetings, contracts, debts, etc., mostly.....
Tangier, Morocco: 1978 - 91. Letter. Archive of 31 items SIGNED in full or as "Paul B.," each to Gregory Stephenson: 2 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS * 25 TYPED LETTERS * 4 AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS. The letters, discussing publication of works by himself and other writers, and complaining of the bureaucratic and meteorological.....
Tangier, Morocco: 1986. Letter. Three TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) to Bob Sharrard, publisher/proprietor of City Lights Books in San Francisco, on onionskin paper, SIGNED "Paul Bowles" and "Paul B" (two). Bowles writes from his home in Morocco on various literary matters. Some excerpts: "I think I wrote you that a......
Paris: 4 May 1956. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" onionskin paper personal stationery to Saul Mauraker. She begins by apologizing for not thanking him for his Christmas wishes and takes the opportunity upon receiving a birthday card to thank him now. She talks about the.....
Austria: 16 June 1969. Letter. A one-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED to a Doubleday editor on 5-3/4" x 8-1/4" Hinterholz 6, Kirchstetten stationery, where Auden lived for awhile. He is buried in a Kirchstetten churchyard. In part: "After various attempts, I have come to the conclusion that I simply cannot translate.....
