Auction Date:2011 Oct 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
ALS signed “S. L. Clemens,” one page, 5.75 x 9, July 12, 1886. Clemens writes J. H. Gibson In full, “I have been out West, three weeks, & meantime your felicitous poem has arrived. I offer my hearty appreciation, tardy though it be, & also my best thanks for the compliment which you have paid me. The truthful legend goes better in metrical dress than in prose.” At the top of the page in a different ink he has added, “P.S. They all say it should be ‘Miss.’ Will compromise by making it so on the envelop [sic].” In fine condition, with blocks of light toning and some staining not affecting the text. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and a clipping of a published poem written by Gibson.
Writing under the pseudonym ‘Timothy Tugmuffin,’ Jay Hollis Gibson took a story out of Twain's A Tramp Abroad and turned it into a poem. Apparently impressed, Clemens wrote back to the librarian—not knowing whether to address Gibson as Mister or Miss—and thanked him “for the compliment which you have paid me,” addressing him as “Mr.” in the letter and “Miss” on the envelope. As alluded to here, Clemens’ delay in responding to Gibson’s letter resulted from a summertime family reunion with his brother and mother near Clemens's boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri.
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