Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 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,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 5.75, September 26, 1898. Letter to Edward Bok. In full: “New address: Hotel Krantz Neuemarkt Vienna…It may be that you would prefer an article (‘The Memorable Assassination’) to that dream-story. I have just finished & sent it to my friend H. H. Rogers, Esq., 26 Broadway, with a photo or two of the Empress & the funeral procession. Price, $600. If you think you would rather have it than the ‘Platonic Sweetheart,’ send him word, or drop in there & read it.” Recipient’s name has been unobtrusively rubbed off, and some scattered mild toning, otherwise fine condition.
Now living in Vienna, Clemens had the opportunity to attend the funeral of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who was assassinated by an Italian anarchist on September 10, 1898. He bore witness to the procession from the balcony of Hotel Krantz, which provided a direct view of Capuchin Church, home of the Hasberg crypt. This major event provided the inspiration for The Memorable Assassination, a story that Clemens felt Bok, editor of Ladies Home Journal, may have considered more desirable than his “dream-story” for publication. Clemens' decision to submit the newly-inspired letter, and at a discounted rate, speaks volumes about the national impact of the Empress's murder and his strong desire to not only document it, but share the catastrophic event that had so greatly moved so many.
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