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INCLUDES HERMAN MELVILLE AND LARGEWALTWHITMAN SIGNATURES
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(ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 50 items Signed, or Signed and
Inscribed, by 19th-century American writers, artists, and others, including mostly
Autograph Quotations Signed. Kept by the Piatt family of Ohio. Most written on album
page, rectos only. 4to, morocco by Kundahl & Scheifele with owner initials on rear cover
(“MAP” [Mary Ann Piatt]?), worn; many loose leaves, faint scattered foxing throughout.
Vp, 1831-86
[4,000/6,000]
Writers: Herman Melville. Signature and date, on same page as quotation by Edgar Fawcett. Np, 3
November 1877 *Walt Whitman. Signature and date: “Camden New Jersey / March 11 1886” *
HenryW. Longfellow.AQS and dated, the final stanza from his “The Day is Done.” Cambridge, 18
January 1877 * Ralph Waldo Emerson. Autograph Poem Signed, “R.Waldo Emerson,” his 8-line
poem [“Letters”], beginning “Every day brings a ship.” Np, nd * James Russell Lowell. Autograph
Poem dated and Signed, “J.R. Lowell,” his 6-line poem, “My Study,” beginning “Who would not
love this book-enwalled retreat?” Elmwood, 19 June 1877 * William Cullen Bryant. AQS and
dated, the 9th stanza from his “The Battle Field.” Np, December 1876 * John Greenleaf Whittier.
AQS and dated,“John G.Whittier,” three stanzas from his “To J.T.F.” Np, 30 July 1879 * Joaquin
Miller. AQS, two stanzas from his poem, “Charity,” beginning, “O woman, born first to believe us.”
Np, nd * Oliver Wendell Holmes. AQS and dated, the final stanza from his “The Chambered
Nautilus.” Boston, 13 June 1877 * William Dean Howells. Autograph Poem Signed, “W.D.
Howells,” his 4-line poem [“Sarcastic Fair”], beginning “Her mouth is a honey-blossom.” Nd *
Albert Pike. AQS, first stanza from his “After the Midnight Cometh Morn.” Np, nd * Bayard
Taylor. Autograph Poem dated and Signed, his 3-stanza poem, “Proposal,” beginning “The violet
loves a sunny bank.” NewYork, 30 January 1878.
Artists: Robert Walter Weir. Two drawings, each Signed, “R.W.W.,” lower right: the first, ink, wash
and pastel, sketch of 3 robed figures outside a door. 5x3
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inches; mounted.The second, ink, study of
man’s back in 17th-century[?] costume. 8x4 inches; drawn on album page. Np, nd * Samuel
Colman. “The Tower of the Comares,” etching on japan paper, Signed and dated at lower right,
“Proof / Sam’l Colman / 1881,” in pencil. 6x4 inches; mounted at corners * others.
WRITERS
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