Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

226 c   BATES, KATHARINE LEE. Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Dr. Green,” explaining all the circumstances that prevented her from replying sooner, and explaining that she could not sign the copies he sent of “America the Beautiful” because they contained the earlier and unauthorized text in the third stanza. 2 pages, 8vo, “Department of Literature” stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet. Wellesley, 3 July 1925 [700/1,000] “. . . I have not signed your beautifully typed copies of America the Beautiful .As you will see by the printed substitutes, I am trying to establish the later text of the third stanza, and your version followed the earlier. . . .” with — Katharine Lee Bates. Poems of March, 1917 , Signed and Inscribed on the front cover:“Ethel Dana Roberts / Thanks and excuses,” a pamphlet containing three of her poems. 4 pages, 8vo, folded sheet. Np, nd. 227 c   BROWNING, ROBERT.Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Sir,” accepting an invitation and sending regards to Mrs.Thompson. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; remnants of prior mounting along vertical fold and at upper and lower left corners, horizontal folds. “19Warwick Crescent,W.” [London], 17 May 1879 [600/900] “The honor and kindness of your invitation; what can I say more of them than that they enhance the signal display of those qualities in the conferment of that distinction to which I have been invited? I accept your proposal very gratefully . . . .” 226 [ see illustration overleaf ]