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(WRITERS—20TH-CENTURY.) Group of 11 letters, including 7 Autograph
Letters Signed and 4 Typed Letters Signed, many by friends or relations of Sheridan Le
Fanu. Format and condition vary. Some with the original envelope.
Vp, 1927-73
[200/300]
Robert A. Heinlein.TLS, “Bob,” to Mark Reinsberg, concerning a recording of a talk broadcast
by WFMT. 1 page, 8vo. Colorado Springs, 23 April 1957 * Rex Stout. TLS, to Gilbert
Phelps, answering queries about the British Society of Authors and the Authors League of
America. 1 page, 4to, “Authors Guild” stationery. NewYork, 15 June 1964 * Sax Rohmer.
ALS, to William G. Lee, concerning some of his books published under pseudonyms.
1
/
2
page,
4to, personal stationery. New York, 16 December 1948 * Andre Norton. TLS, to Nard
Kordell, advising a fledgling writer. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. Maitland, 28 May 1973 *
Robert L. Zetler.TLS, to Montague Summers, concerning a projected bibliography of Sheridan
Le Fanu’s works. 1 page, 4to, “University of Pittsburgh” stationery. Pittsburgh, 14 April 1945
* Thomas Philip Le Fanu.Two ALsS,“T.P. deFanu,” to Mr. Ellis, concerning the works of his
relative.Together 4 pages, 4to, personal stationery. Bray, 26 November 1927; 31 January 1931
* Derek Pepys Whiteley. ALS, to “Dear Sir,” concerning illustrations to De Fanu works. 3
pages, 8vo. [London], 21 September 1942 * Florence N. Millar.ALS, to Montague Summers,
concerning her proposed biography of De Fanu. 2 pages, 8vo, personal stationery. Dundrum,
[16 April 1948] * Charles C. Edmunds.Two ALsS, to Montague Summers, recollecting child-
hood visits fromWilkie Collins.Together 4 pages, 8vo, personal stationery. Leighton Buzzard,
6; 22 March 1943.
WITH
—
a small group of printed ephemera relating to Sheridan Le Fanu.
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(WRITERS.) 4 Clipped Signatures: Mark Twain * John Ruskin * Ralph Waldo
Emerson * James Russell Lowell.The Twain, signed “Sam’l L. Clemens / Mark Twain,” on
a small card. 1
3
/
4
x4 inches; portrait pasted to lower left recto, remnants of prior mounting
overall verso.The others, fragments clipped from letters, including holograph closing. Each
3
/
4
x4 inches or larger; mounted except for Lowell. (MRS)
Np, nd
[500/750]
300
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(WRITERS.) Group of over 40 Letters Signed, to later Congressman Seymour
Halpern.The letters, ranging from brief typed notes to extensive handwritten letters, some
with enclosures. Format and condition vary.
SOLD AS IS
.
Vp, 1929-30
[1,500/2,000]
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, a 15-year old budding autograph collector wrote to many
published writers asking for their autograph and asking them: “To what do you attribute your
success?”
ALsS from Padraic Colum, Irving Bacheller, Charles Duff, Meredith Nicholson, Dane
Coolidge, SidneyWood, and others.
TLsS from Ida Mellen, Naomi Mitchinson, Corey Ford, Opie Read, George Ade, Sheila
Kaye-Smith, Felix Riesenberg, Gamaliel Bradford, Fitzhugh Green,Arnold Zweig, Channing
Pollock, RebeccaWest, Jane Abbott, Ralph Roeder, and others.