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Emma Bucknell

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Emma Bucknell

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Auction Date:2012 Dec 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Philadelphia heiress, first class passenger and Titanic survivor who evacuated onboard Lifeboat 8. Bucknell College in Pennsylvania is named for her husband. ALS, eight pages on two sets of adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, April 30, 1885. Lengthy apologetic letter to Dr. Anderson after she left his book store in a hurry to make another appointment. In part: “I think I have never in my life been so rude to anyone as to you the other day and I have added to my fault by leaving you so long without an apology. Which is your due, and which alone can restore me to any self respect. I can only comfort myself by hoping that I can show you that my first fault was unintentional, my second unavoidable, and to win your forgiveness for both. When you went up stairs after the book, leaving me with Miriam Bitting you little thought I was going to surpass your very worst act of forgetfulness nor did I. You must never complain again of your ‘treacherous memory’ in my presence unless you wish to make me suffer over again the shame and mortification I felt when I realized what an unparalleled act of rudeness my treacherous memory had led me into. I had an engagement at one o’clock, and Mr. Bucknell had asked me to do something for him at the house before that hour. I had been talking with Miriam utterly oblivious of the flight of time until after you went up stairs, when some remark of hers made me look at my watch. Imagine my consternation when I found I had only twenty five minutes left in which to go home, do Mr. Bucknell‘s work, and go down to 2nd and Chestnut! Everything but my need for haste flew out of my head, and I flew out of the store. I never once thought of you until I was on my way back down Chestnut St. Of all the persons to choose upon whom to cast such indignity! I had always admired and reverenced you, and valued the possibility of your bearing me in kindly esteem, so highly that I could have cried from vexation if that would have mended matters any, I thought that I could write you a note of apology as soon as I reached Chestnut Hill, but no! I was not to have even that comfort. I have always been a victim to sick head-ache whenever I have been too tired or worried or have been imprudent in my diet, and on that day I had been all three, so instead of writing to you I spent several profitable—I hope—hours of painful meditation on my bed. It was not until nearly noon of Wednesday that I could raise my head, and then, weak and almost too sick to leave my bed, I had to make the first train I could get to keep an important engagement out of town…I do most sincerely wish that I could do something to prove how sorry l am. That I fear is impossible, but if l can please command me.” A few partial separations along horizontal folds, a uniform shade of mild toning, and some of the writing a shade light, but still completely legible, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
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