Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

WRITTEN DURING ENGLISH EXILE IN MONTHS FOLLOWING “J’ACCUSE...!” 280 c   ZOLA, ÉMILE. Autograph Letter Signed, “Z,” to “My dear colleague,” in French, reporting his travel plans and arranging a meeting. 1 page, 8vo; faint even toning, horizontal fold. Np, 1 October 1898 [800/1,200] “It is absolutely decided that we will leave Summerfields Monday the 10th, before noon. Notify, there- fore, the rental agent that he shouldn’t count on us for more. “I do believe that it isTuesday morning that you will have to bring me Charpentier [Zola’s publisher’s wife, Marguerite?]. In that case, you would have a dispatch Monday.” 281 c   (WRITERS—19TH CENTURY.) Group of 4 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd [600/900] JuliaWard Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe.Two Autograph Quotations Signed on same sheet, each by one, Julia’s on the upper portion of page (beginning “We forget that all the needs and / duties of society are perpetual”), Samuel’s on the lower (“Work,—not words. / Sam’l GHowe”). 1 page, 4to. Np, nd * Harriet Beecher Stowe. Check endorsed,“HB Stowe,” on verso, payable to her from publisher James R. Osgood & Co. in the amount of $200 drawn on the Central National Bank of NewYork. 3x8 inches. Np, 27 December 1871 [date of issue] * Charles Kingsley. ALS, “CKingsley,” to “My dear Parker,” promising to send the draft of an article (“Mrs. Jameson” [probably “The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art,” Fraser’s Magazine, March, 1849]). 3 pages, 8vo. Ilfracombe, “Wednesday” [1849] * Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Brief ALS,“Mr. Sheridan,” in the third person within the text, to “Mr. Hickey”:“Mr. Sheridan’s comp’s to Mr. Hickey would be much obliged to him if he would be so good as to call in Great Queen Street tomorrow before two o’clock, as Mr. S’n afores’d it will not be in his Power to call on Mr. Hickey.” 1 page, 5 1 / 2 x7 1 / 2 inches. Np, “Tuesd. Night.” 280

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