Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 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, 4.5 x 7, November 30, 1894. Letter to General [Lloyd S.] Bryce. In full: “I am located here for the winter–with gout in both ankles; but it is passing away, after a three-weeks’ attack. I am glad you have got that article, & I wish I could write one on Joan of Arc, but through illness in my family & my own person I have now lost two solid months & am away [sic] behind – hand on my engagements. It will take me all the winter to catch up, I think. I don’t suppose I shall have a chance to do any extra work in all that time.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered toning and soiling, a bit heavier to lower blank portion of second page, missing lower left corner tip of second page, and slight show-through from a mounting remnant to top left.
Bryce was editor and publisher of America’s first literary magazine, the Boston-based North American Review, when he received this letter from Clemens. Clemens was a frequent contributor to the publication, including one sent several weeks earlier entitled ‘What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us,’ in which a recent work by the French writer was criticized. In that submission, he wrote that ‘no foreigner can report [on America’s] interior—its soul, its life, its speech, its thought.’ A unique correspondence referencing an article that would raise the ire of the French.
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