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ABBOTT, BERENICE.
Changing NewYork.
Signed and Inscribed on the title-page: “To
Karin / from / Berenice / 1954 / October.” 4to, publisher’s cloth, worn and soiled, backstrip
nearly detached; lacks dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION
.
NewYork, 1939
[700/1,000]
“
IWOULD RATHER STUDY PEACETHANWAR”
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CATLIN, GEORGE. Autograph Letter Signed, “G.C.,” to an unnamed recipient
(“
Dear Sir”), stating that he has been unable to see him and that he must leave for Manchester,
and requesting that he not mention his name to Col. Sherburne. 2
1
/
2
pages, 8vo, written on a
single folded sheet.
Np, “Monday evening” [circa 1840]
[1,000/2,000]
“
Returning too late from Preston I could not reach your house on Sunday evening & my avocations
since have been such as to prevent me as yet from calling on you. I leave at an early hour tomorrow
(
Tuesday) for Manchester . . . .
“
In any correspondence you may have relative to Col. Sherburne I pray that (though you are at
liberty to make use of the information I have given you) you will make little use of my name as
you well can, as I would rather study peace than war with such a person. . . .”
Unable to find a suitable market in America for his growing body of work, Catlin travelled to
England in 1839 hoping to find a more receptive audience.
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