Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (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
Journalist and newspaper publisher who established the Pulitzer Prize ‘for the encouragement of public service, public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education.’ ALS, one page, faintly-lined, 6 x 9.25, Post-Dispatch letterhead, April 19, 1882. Letter to William Henry Smith. In part: “I never got your book on St. Clair and wish you would send it. Will you be in Chicago next week? And next? I intend to run up and don’t want to miss you again. Please let me know, as I am anxious to to [sic] see about some matter.” In very good condition, with creasing to left edge and thin toning along right edge, a couple small edge tears to lower left, and a bit of scattered light soiling. Accompanied by a three-page secretarial ALS, bearing a secretarial signature as well, dated October 8, 1901, written to Colonel William Hester, president of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Pulitzer delivered this letter to the author of the two-volume publication, The St. Clair Papers: The Life and Public Services of Arthur St. Clair, published in 1882. The work’s subject was an American soldier and politician who served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania, where he held local office. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, but later lost his command after a controversial retreat.
Pulitzer served as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1878 to 1883, and by the time of this correspondence had helped establish a profitable newspaper with a large readership. It was also during his tenure there that Pulitzer became a champion of the common man via hard-hitting journalism. A succinct letter from the man whose name is synonymous with journalistic integrity.
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