874

TOM TAYLOR A.L.S.

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
TOM TAYLOR A.L.S.
<b>874. (ABRAHAM LINCOLN) TOM TAYLOR</b> (1817 - 1880) English playwright, best remembered for his play <i>Our American Cousin</i>, at whose performance at the Ford Theatre in Washington Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865. A.L.S. "<i>Tom Taylor</i>" 4pp. 8vo., Whitehall, May 4, [n.y.], to Noel, in part: "<i>...I think Libtenburg's letters are extremely interesting, & could make a good article...Perhaps, if you did not aim at immediate publication, this would afford not a bad offering for publication of the letters, or our article...But if you wish as probably you do for an early publication, it may not suit your book to wait...</i>". Folds and a bit of soiling, with a biographical clipping affixed at left margin, generally good.<b>$100-150</b>