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HORATIO ALGER

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HORATIO ALGER
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>HORATIO ALGER </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1834-1899.) Perhaps the most socially influential American writer of his generation, the clergyman and author wrote more than 100 enormously popular books for boys including <i>Luck and Pluck</i> (1869) and <i>Tattered Tom</i> (1871). ALS, 1p, 12mo, New York, Mar 11, 1891. To a collector, “...<i>Excuse my delay in answering your letter, but I have been hunting for some photographs which are mislaid...I inclose part of a poem</i> [not present]<i> in autograph. The title of the complete poems is ‘Carving a Name.’</i>...” Boldly penned and signed. Light abrasions at left edge; light wrinkling; o/w VG. Accompanied by printed biography/bibliography on verso of title page of his book, <i>The Telegraph Boy</i>.</span></p>