Auction Date:2012 Oct 17 @ 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
TLS signed “Mr. F,” one onionskin page, 8 x 10, August 9, 1939. Letter to his nephew. In full: “You prig—yes, you heard me correctly—prig. You have been narked with me since the night we were out with a crowd of ruffians and I chaffed you into smoking and drinking. At long last, I can tell you the truth. I had a feeling from the first day I laid eyes upon you that some day you would butcher some one—commit a murder—again you understand me correctly. I was doing my best to save you. It cost me money. You did not know that the cigar you gnawed on cost 25¢, 3 for 50¢. And what happened? You go about the town Fire Island countryside telling people I’m not fit to eat with pigs. I am going to prove to you I am. Wait.” To close, Fields writes in his own hand, correcting a misspelling, “Indignantly—thought I didn’t know how to spell eh? Mr. F.” There is another handwritten correction in the main text, to fill in a missed “I.” In fine condition, with a paperclip impression and rust mark to the upper left, a couple spots of soiling, and some slight haloing to the handwritten portion. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, with part of the return address area filled in by Fields. A humorous letter about one of the comic genius’s usual nights.
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