The antiquary, poet, and publisher of the Lee Priory Press, Egerton Brydges (1762-1837), writes to the Scottish poet, editor, and translator Robert Pearse Gillies (1788-1858) "to thank you very warmly for your last & to say that no man of feeling & taste can possibly see the high value of.....
Big, Sur, California, May 14, 1945. Henry Miller responds to an inquiry from a young collector, Jack Aldridge, who is serving in the Army, and in the course of his letter makes an interesting confession: "Dear Lieutenant Jack! I wish I were good enough to make the sort of water.....
A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of.....
![Vida del Principe D[o]n Carlos, Espana Escrita por el Abad de S[a]n Real. CESAR VICHARD DE...](/pictures/thumb/21846.jpg?v=1613418877)
[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A fair copy manuscript of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his.....
Circa 1820. Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own renderings.....
¶ A letter of condolence to a friend in England written in Lydia Sigourney's exemplary penmanship, delivered for her by the diplomat, pacifist, and social activist Elihu Burritt, who Sigourney notes in her letter is "well known on both sides of the ocean as the 'learned blacksmith.'"
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First edition. BAL 18767; Mattila A12. A selection of Sterling's best poetry to date. Inscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper to his wife, Carrie: "Dear Carrie: / Just a / few unnatural [?] sonnets. / George. / San Francisco, July 5, 1916.".....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. ¶ An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1938. First edition. Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 2355. "A novel of California from 1837 to 1861 . . . unique among novels dealing with this period and setting in having a serious and philosophical point of view. Regional history is given considerable detail. Montery and.....
(Amherst, Mass, 1977). First published as "The Mistress of Complication" in Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, compiled and edited by H.R.F. Keating (1977). ¶ A fine essay on the detective fiction of Agatha Christie by fellow writer of detective fiction Julian Symons. His premise is that Christie is the.....
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC.....
Camden, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897-1912. The earliest letter is addressed "Dear Charlotte," and is personal correspondence on family affairs; the second letter, dated February 4, is to Richard Mansfield, the English actor-manager (1857-1907): "Dear Mr. Mansfield, I have the honor to be one of the executors of Walt.....
N.p., n.d., but circa 1826-30. Apparently unpublished. A poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) written when he was a young man and keen suitor, perhaps when he was a student at Yale (class of 1827) or soon after. Willis was well known for such occasional verses written to young ladies.....
