Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

278 c   WHITMAN,WALT. Camden’s Compliment. Ed. Horace L.Traubel. Signed and dated, on the front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; edges rubbed, corners bumped; faint foxing to endpapers, owner inscription on recto of rear free endpaper. first edition . Philadelphia, 1889; inscription: Np, 16 December 1889 [800/1,200] INCLUDESTWO LETTERSWRITTEN FROMWHITE HOUSE 279 c   WOOLLCOTT, ALEXANDER. Group of 7 letters, each Signed, in full, “A.W.,” or “AWoollcott,” including an Autograph Letter and 6 Typed Letters, to his family friend Alexander C.Humphreys, and other recipients, on various topics. Format and condition vary. Three with the original envelope. Vp, 1916-41 [400/600] 6 October 1919, to Alexander C. Humphreys: “When you came to my rescue in 1906 and made it possible for me to continue my course at Hamilton College, you wrote that if I ever wished to repay you . . . I could find the account all recorded in your books. I have often wished to repay you . . . . “Then the war came . . . . So not until now have I had the money . . . . “It seems to me that I also owe you interest on this loan . . . calculated at six per cent . . . . “Under separate cover, I am sending you a book I have written. Just now I am inordinately proud of it. . . .” 21 May 1929, to “My dear Niece”:“I could convey my blessings much more eloquently if the sturdy vine would bring the clinging oak up to call some day. . . . “I am now struggling with an impulse to send you a wedding present. I suppose it ought to take the form of a few wholesome groceries.” 8 October 1929, to Herbert [McAneny], sending a group of 3 small photographs of himself:“You can do anything you want with my face . . . provided the use of these cartoons doesn’t imply an endorsement of your Goddamn game. . . . “Harpo Marx is, and will be all this week and next, at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. . . .” 25 May 1933, to “My dear Roscius”:“. . .This will not illegitimize the baby, which will, by the way, be a boy, and is to be named, I might as well tell you, Michael. . . .” 28 February 1941, to Marguerite McAneny:“It was I who proposed Princeton for the opening night before Baltimore but the theatre wanted a rather larger percentage than the management wanted to part with.Therefore we went off in a huff to Bridgeport instead . . . . “Things are booming here.We go to Philadelphia for three weeks beginning March tenth. . . .”Written onWhite House stationery. On February 24, 1941,Woollcott visited theWhite House at the invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt (he had visited on other occasions as well), lodging there until March 9 in the Rose Room. On the evening of the 25th, the Roosevelts attended the National Theater to watchWoollcott perform in Kaufman and Hart’s The ManWho Came to Dinner . with — Alexander Woollcott. Autograph Note Signed, in French: “Here they are / A.W.” 1 / 4 page, 8vo, personal stationery. Np, 25 April 1922. 278