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
American writer, editor, military surgical assistant, and acclaimed artist who was a fatality of the sinking of the Titanic. He was one of the most famous men to perish in the disaster. ALS signed “F. D. Millet,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, February 6, 1912. Letter to the editor of the New Bedford Morning Mercury. In full: “I was delighted to get your excellent and most interesting letter, yesterday and the photograph which came a good deal damaged but can be repaired somewhat and will serve me perfectly well. It is the best photograph of a whaler I ever saw and am very glad indeed to get it. Also the No. 8 of the Old Dartmouth Historical Societies, full of meat came to hand and I have read the marked page and a good many of the others already, while waiting for this large room to get room enough to work in. It is greatly encouraging to hear that they will permit me to ignore those electrobeis and I am sure they will never regret it. Thank you very much for the photograph and the pamphlet and for your kind offers in relation to the electric fixtures. I hope to get to work early in May. I have to run over to Rome first but I shall be always studying the subjects and hope to get a series which will be a record of the history at once instructive and decorative. Of course whaling will bear a prominent part but I think I can also work in all sorts of incidents and events which will enrich the series and add to the interest. As one studies a problem like this the ideas develop very fast and the trouble usually is to keep them down to reasonable limits. I can already see scores more pictures than I can put on the walls.
I shall have to come down to make accurate measurements and templates as soon as I get back from Rome and then I hope I shall not be so much rushed as I was on my last visit and shall have an opportunity to have a talk with you. I still laugh over the creaking corduroys of Menemsha Bight.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, and a mild shade if toning. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
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