140 174
INTRODUCING HORATIOWOODMANTO SATURDAY CLUB
190
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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph Letter Signed, “R.W. Emerson,” to
Horatio Woodman (“Mr. Woodman”), requesting that he explain the finances of the
[Saturday] Club, and conveying his wife’s thanks for a rich banquet. 3 pages, 8vo, written
on a single folded sheet; remnants of mounting at all edges of terminal page, small hole in
lower margin of terminal page.
Concord, 15 September 1856
[700/1,000]
“
. . . [L]est Mr.Ward & you should meet [without me], I pray you to note that he was my
guest at our last sitting. He wishes to come again, . . . [E]xplain to him the profound financial
mysteries of the Club. . . .”
DISCUSSING CHARACTERS FROM HIS NOVEL “THAÏS”
191
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FRANCE, ANATOLE. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient (“dear
Madame”), in French, mentioning scenes [from his novel,
Thaïs
] in which Thaïs performs
in the role of Polyxena and in which a naked man is encountered in the desert, complain-
ing that [Victor] Brochard would think the naked man was an image stolen from him,
suggesting [joking?] that he himself should write a history of the skeptics, expressing his
amusement at Abbot Paphnutius [character from
Thaïs
], describing his encounter with Ms.
Houssage who looks modern and young and innocent, adding that Houssage doesn’t see or
understand or feel anything, conveying regards from Ms. Suzon, and, in a postscript, asking
what day she returns so that he may visit. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet;
faint uneven toning to first and terminal pages, minor scattered soiling.
Np, nd
[600/900]
190
Lot 191