MANUSCRIPTS and LETTERS in 5 Volumes from his Collected Works
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895 - 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Several odd volumes from the Riverside Edition of THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS, limited to 1000 copies. Each volume has tipped or laid in MANUSCRIPT Material or Letters. Volume I contains a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the publisher to Charles N. Elliot dated 1896 describing the publication of the set. This volume is SIGNED by Elliot on the title page. Volume III has tipped in a brief handwritten MANUSCRIPT ink segment by Burroughs of about 50 words that begins "Yet I am aware that Whitman does not mind discord...." It is tipped in at the beginning of his chapter on Whitman titled "The Flight of the Eagle." Laid in loosely in Volume VII is a handwritten MANUSCRIPT ink page on the voice of the critic. Tipped in to Volume XV is a 1912 TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Burroughs to Elliot thanking him for his birthday wishes that found him "in good health and enjoying life as much as ever," and also thanking him for photographs of Maurice Bucke who became one of Whitman's most devoted friends and supporters in the poet's later years. Volume XVII has a 3-1/2 page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED in pencil by Burroughs tipped in where the text occurs in the essay "The Hit-And-Miss Method of Nature" in the book THE SUMMIT OF THE YEARS. In addition to the material by Burroughs, Elliot has made several small bibliographical notes in the volumes. Three additional volumes from this set are included making a total of 8 volumes. Two of the volumes have dampstaining, especially heavy to Vol. XVII, but the manuscript material is largely unaffected. Rubbing and sunning to the volumes. Manuscript material Very Good or better; the volumes Good to Very Good. Item #020891
Charles N. Elliot was an important collector of Walt Whitman materials. His correspondence is held by the Library of Congress.
Price: $1,000.00