Letters and Portraits

Catalogue Twenty Two

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1. [Agriculture, Anonymous] Autograph Manuscript, "Conference: On the importance of Agriculture". No date, but probably early nineteenth century. Twelve
leaves, 6 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, stringbound at the top edge, the first page with the word
"Conference" on the recto, the verso blank, the last leaf blank. Ten leaves closely
written on both sides with the title "Conference: on the importance of Agriculture".
Three characters named A,B, and C participate, with stage directions, in a debate. "A"
has finished college and desires to become a farmer, as this suits his nature better
than 3 other professions under consideration - lawyer, doctor, minister. "B" is in support of this decision, and cites, by name, several ancient Greeks, Romans, and George
Washington as illustrative of the esteem in which farmers may be held; "C" denigrates
farming, especially among educated men, who should pursue more challenging careers to benefit society and his own reputation. According to "C", "...let those till the
earth who are unfit for higher and more responsible stations", while "A" responds:
"Perhaps you do not consider that modern improvements have made agriculture almost as much a science as an art". Twenty pages, about 1500 words, long enough
that in one spot there is evidence of a break for sharpening a quill - the pen strokes
abruptly go from thick to thin. Edited frequently in the same hand. Some edgewear
and dog-earing, in Very Good condition. $225
2. Alcott, Louisa M. (May). Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. My Boys, Etc. Boston: Roberts
Brothers, 1872. First edition (BAL 168). Original rose cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and
blind. Gift inscription dated Dec. 25th, 1871 - Blanck saw none earlier. Very slightly
cocked, a little rubbed, lower spine end a little worn, spine sunned. A Very Good
copy. $175
Allingham, William see under Thoreau, Thalatta
3. Bancroft, George. Autograph Quotation, Autograph Letter, Typed Letter, all
Signed. The quotation dated 1881 on an album leaf, two lines from Wordsworths
Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture: "Give one brief moment caught from fleeting
time / The appropriate calm of blest eternity." In Fine condition. The autograph
letter, no date but docketed 1864 by the recipient, a Mr. Kennedy, who is being informed that Goldwin Smith, the English historian, wont be able to make his speaking
engagement so the dinner will be postponed. One page, Fine. The typed letter, dated
1884 (Bancroft was 84) thanks Robert Cassie Waterston for the gift of his memoir of
George Barrell Emerson, his Harvard classmate and Ralph Waldos cousin, and for the
many .kind expressions with which you comfort the last years of the oldest of
men. He would live another seven years. Paper browned, a few edge chips, in Good
condition. For the lot: $275

4. [Bancroft, George, his copy] Dowden, Edward. Shakspere. London: Macmillan,

1877. First edition (NCBEL, v.3). Original glazed printed cloth. George Bancroft's
copy, his signature and later (1879) presentation inscription to his "kinswoman", Edith
King Davis, daughter of Thomas Starr King, wife of Horace Davis, who was a President
of the University of California. Fragile binding re-backed with the original spine cloth
retained. A puncture to the spine cloth, a Good copy. $150
Presentation copy
5. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam (We shall
rise again). New York: The Bancroft Co., 1907. First edition. Original grey cloth decorated in gilt and white, 64 pp. Written in the year after the earthquake of 1906, this
book is about an imagined new San Francisco, arisen from the rubble. Inscribed and
signed: "Mr. Daniel A. Ryan with the best respects of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco, August 15, 1907." Ryan (1873-1933) was a prominent San Francisco attorney.
With Ryan's bookplate. See below under California for a pre-earthquake San Francisco. A little soiling, but Fine. $100
6. [Book Auction Catalogue; Jacob Blanck] The Library of the Late Frederick Skiff.
San Francisco: Butterfield and Butterfield, 1947. Original printed wrappers, 172 pp.
In the original envelope addressed to George H. Tweney of Michigan. Laid in are
Tweney's rough draft and carbon copy of a typed letter to Jacob Blanck, with Blanck's
reply, a typed letter, signed, on Publisher's Weekly letterhead. Tweney had written
about his correspondence with Skiff and the quality of his collection. He then, at great
length, described his disappointment with the format of the auction catalogue and
detailed specific mistakes. He thought that the dealers would make good to the disadvantage of Skiff's estate. Blanck's letter agrees with these criticisms. Then, "I never
met Mr. Skiff but in the so-called good old days had contact with him through my old
boss Merle Johnson...." About 120 words. A Fine copy of the catalogue, and a fine
letter. $100
Botta, Anne Lynch see under Froude, J.A.
7. Browning, Robert. Carte de Visite. Imprint of the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co., a bust portrait, full face, eyes to his right, a white tie, vest un-buttoned,
taken in about 1880. A few flaws from a dirty negative, and the card a little toned. In
Good condition. $50
8. [California] Hoag, Charles, editor. Our Society Blue Book. San Francisco: Charles
C. Hoag, 1902. First edition. Original royal blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt,
574 pp. "The Fashionable Private Address Directory, Season of 1902". Covering San
Francisco, Oakland, other Bay Area towns, Sacramento, Stockton, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, and San Diego. "Containing names and addresses, reception days and country
residences, also private telephone numbers of prominent families...San Francisco

street and avenue guide, Ladies' Shopping Guide, etc., etc., etc." With numerous full
page ads, many in color. Very little rubbing, a little soiling to front. A Very Good,
attractive copy. $125
9. [Channing, William Ellery, the elder, his family] Autograph Letter, (not signed).
No date, but before 1842. The writer unknown, probably a lady, To "Miss Mary R.
Channing, Care Revd Wm. E. Channing, Boston." Notifying Mary Ruth Channing (18181891), daughter of William Ellery Channing, of an engagement in the family, and asking her to spread the news: "I find people will talk whether you wish it or not....I
should have preferred for the present not making (this announcement). But Mary is
not willing that Cousins so dear as you and Anna should hear it from strangers...she is
engaged to Mr. C." The writer objects to "early and long engagements", but she has
"a perfect confidence in his high principle, & good dispositions, & warm affections Mary is older than her years - & they have been for two years intimately acquainted.
Will you give my love to your father and mother, - & to Aunt Sarah....also to Walter's
family (Dr. Walter Channing), & George's (George Gibbs Channing), & Susan - & to my
brother Henry (Channing)...". She ends with "Love to Anna". Perhaps by one of William Ellery Channings sisters, he had three - Lucy Russell, Ann Allston, and Mary
Gibbs. One sheet, one page, the address on the obverse, along with a quote from
Keats's "Lamia": "Love in a hut with water & a crust/Is love, forgive us - cinders, ashes,
dust." Folded for mailing, remains of sealing wax. In Fine condition. $125
10. [Channing family]. Autograph Letter, Signed. To "Miss Channing, Newport". No
date. Seemingly accompanying a package no longer present, in difficult hand-writing:
"I only have time to send a great deal of love to dear Aunty - with respects for your
Mother - & regards for Mr. E." Signed "Lucy" with a postscript: "You must wear these
for my sake." The obverse carries the address, remains of sealing wax, and, in another
difficult hand: "Package retained - come for it. Where is L.E. - young W.C.G." Folded
for mailing, in Fine condition. $75
The reform wing of Transcendentalism
11. Channing, W.H. (William Henry). Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated Liverpool,
March 22, 1855. To Richard Davis Webb, Irish printer and anti-slavery reformer. He
explains that "Mr. Carpenter" has taken his statement out of context, and he has
written to "Mr. Pilsbury" (sic) about the matter. He writes in general about his role in
the controversy between Frederick Douglass and the "'Garrison Abolitionists'". He
now believes that Douglass's "continued hostility" was responsible for the most of the
difficulty, and that the words quoted by Carpenter were based on his (Channings)
prior experience with Douglass in Rochester. It is essential that anti-slavery forces
"present a united front" on both sides of the water, that "the Slave-Power is strong",
but more "from the division of its foes, than from its own inherent energy." Douglass
had frequently visited Channing in his lodgings in Rochester in 1854. Channing left for

Liverpool in the autumn of that year, and quickly made the acquaintance of the local
reformers, such as Mary and Philip Carpenter (see DNB). The American Parker Pillsbury had represented the Garrisonian "American Anti-Slavery Society" in Great Britain
in 1854. Six pages, about 300 words. Mounting adhesions, offsetting from something
printed laid against p.1, folded for mailing. A Very Good letter. $750
12. Churchill, Randolph S. What I Said About the Press. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, (1957). First edition. Original printed paper boards, lacking the spine panel.
A presentation copy, inscribed and signed: "Leonard from Randolph. Leonard Lyons
was a columnist ("The Lyon's Den) for the New York Post. Churchill was the son of
Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He was briefly in Parliament, was a sometime journalist, wrote several books including a biography of his father, and was primarily a
controversialist, as this title suggests. Laid in is a letter to Lyons dated 3 March, 1957:
"Here is my book on the libel action..." and asking for "a puff" to help sales. With:
laid in is a pamphlet, "An Open Letter....to Bishop Fulton Sheen....", four leaves, caption title, no publisher but an address to send to for more copies, slamming Henry
Luce of Time Magazine. "....do you not find it rather odious that Mr. Luce's magazines
should intrude so much into people's private lives, whereas the private lives of those
who own newspapers are never intruded upon?". OCLC lists just three copies of this
last, one is at NYPL. The book is clean and sound, despite the loss of the spine panel.
The letter is on brittle paper, two folds and a rusty paper clip mark, the pamphlet is
Fine, and scarce. $75
13. Clarke, James Freeman. Eleven Autograph Letters, Signed; One Autograph Quotation, Signed. Dated from 1856-1886, one undated. Correspondents include Edward
Everett Hale, George Leonard Chaney (4), Samuel May, Jr. Subjects include family
news; a pulpit exchange; itinerary for a trip to Marietta, Georgia; readiness of a sermon for printing; arranging a discussion group; inviting a speaker on Hawaii; a press
release; begging off any responsibility at a conference; agreement to discuss the charitable institutions of Boston with a lady from St. Louis; the quotation is one stanza
from Longfellows A Psalm of Life. A total of 17 pages, in Very Good to Fine condition. $750
Clough, Arthur Hugh see under Thoreau, Thalatta
14. Crane, Stephen. The Correspondence of Stephen Crane. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988. Two Volumes, complete. Original cloth, pictorial dust jacket.
A Fine copy. $75
15. Curtis, George William. Four Autograph Letters, Three Typed Letters, Two Autograph Manuscripts, all but one Signed. Dated 1859 to 1891. Correspondents include
Senator Joseph Roswell Hawley, General Woodruff, C.W. Woodbury, Dr. Crosier,
Sheldon T. Viele. Subjects include the lighting in the hall where he is scheduled to

speak; his unruly knee, owing, as Howells says, to my excesses at tennis; declining a
speaking engagement in the west; the next round of appointments at the New York
Custom House; two letters of recommendation, including one for political and journalistic colleague John Foord. One manuscript is a stanza from his own poem, Major
and Minor, the other is a page from the middle of an essay, likely for publication in
one of his Easy Chair columns, discussing the wood engraver's art and how it has
enhanced the country's "critical journals". This last is in Curtiss hand, but unsigned.
Twelve pages total, in Very Good condition. $350
16. Curtis, George William. Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated New York, February
4, 1873, to "The President". "My dear Sir, I have received a letter from the Secretary
of the Treasury in regard to the nomination of Mr. Benedict. I have written him in
reply, and I have requested him, if he should advise you to withdraw the nomination,
to lay my letter before you. He would come to Washington right away but for an
urgent engagement in Chicago which prevents it. I beg you with all my heart not to
yield to a technical or literal objection. Most respectfully and most truly yours...".
The president was Ulysses S. Grant, his Treasury Secretary was George S. Boutwell.
Grant had initiated a Civil Service Advisory Board in 1871, with Curtis as chairman. The
goal was to reform the previous practice, in which top government positions were
political appointments, routinely changed when new administrations were elected.
The nomination of James L. Benedict, long time employee at the New York Custom
House, was withdrawn. There is no evidence that this letter was ever seen by Grant.
Curtis wrote him another on March 18: As the circumstances under which several
important appointments have been recently made seem to me to show an abandonment both of the spirit and the letter of the Civil Service regulations, I respectfully
resign my position as a member of the advisory board of the Civil Service (quoted in
Milne, 1956, p.145). One sheet, folded to make four pages, two are used, about 125
words. Folded for mailing. Edges chipped with some loss of paper but not of text.
Remains of mounting glue. Folds tender. A Good letter. $475
17. Curtis, George William. Cabinet Card Photograph, Signed. Imprint of the Pach
Bros., New York. A bust portrait, looking to his left, Curtis is about 55. Inscribed and
signed on the back of the card: "Miss Fanny from her friend George William Curtis.
Ashfield, Mass. 28 September, 1884." In Fine condition. $125
18. Curtis, George William. Early Letters of George William Curtis to John S.
Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord. New York and London: Harpers, 1898. First edition. Original gilt- and red-decorated cloth. Edited by George Willis Cooke. Valuable as
a contemporary discussion of Brook Farm; most accounts by eye-witnesses were
written 30 or more years after the fact. Curtis was 19 when he "boarded" at Brook
Farm, he never became a member. One of the letters explains in detail his reasons for
not "associating". A Very Good copy. $85

Presented to John Sullivan Dwight

19. Curtis, G.W. (George William). Nile Notes of a Howadji; Or, the American in
Egypt. London: Henry Vizetelly, no date but 1852. First English edition (see under
BAL 4259). Original illustrated paper boards. Presented twice: "From G.W.C. Oct. 11,
1852" on the endpaper and "John S. Dwight from his friend G.W.C. May 1853" on the
title. Dwight and Curtis met at Brook Farm (see previous entry) they remained lifelong friends. Spine perished, front board detached. A poor binding, but a superb association. $850
Jacob Chester Chamberlains copy
19a. Curtis, George William. The Howadji in Syria. New York: Harper and Brothers,
1852. First American edition (BAL 4261), the first English was three weeks earlier
(London: Richard Bentley, under the title The Wanderer in Syria). Original slate or
slate-green cloth, gilt-lettered, decorated in gilt and blind, brown-orange coated endpapers. Presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: "Fr. W. Rakeman from
his aff. Geo. Wm. Curtis May 3 (or 30), 1852. Jacob Chester Chamberlain's copy, his
engraved bookplate. Light foxing, including to the bookplate. A little rubbing, one
corner and one edge bumped. A Very Good copy. $200
20. [Curtis, George William, editor] Andrew Jackson Downing. Rural Essays. New
York: Leavitt and Allen, (1860). First edition, later printing, the first was 1853 (BAL
4266). Original green cloth, gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and blind, illustrated, 557
pp. Edited, with a memoir, by George William Curtis; with a "Letter to His Friends", by
Frederika Bremer. Downing is considered by some to be the father of American landscape architecture. He was editor of "The Horticulturalist" - most of the essays in this
volume first appeared there. Curtis met Downing in 1846 through Christopher Pearse
Cranch, who was related to Downing by marriage. Downing (born 1815) died when
the steamer Henry Clay caught fire and sank in July, 1852. Light wear, a Very Good
copy. $75
21. Coolbrith, Ina. Songs from the Golden Gate. Boston and New York: Houghton,
Mifflin, 1895. First edition (Zamorano 80, #21). Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, illustrations by William Keith, 159 pp. Coolbrith (1842-1928) moved to Los
Angeles with her family in 1849. For a time she was co-editor with Bret Harte of The
Overland Monthly. She was chosen California's Poet Laureate in 1915. A Fine copy.
$95
Kaiser Wilhelms copy
22. [Dickinson, Emily] Conway, Hugh (Frederick John Fargus). Called Back. Bristol:
J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Griffith and Farran, 1884. First edition in book form (Wolff,
1423a). Contemporary black half morocco, gilt lettered, ruled in blind, and marbled

paper boards, top edge gilt, ribbon marker, 194 pp., C-1 is a cancel, (a-2) and O-2 are
leaves of ads. This was a popular mystery/fantasy/romance which had sold 352,000
copies by 1887, and was immediately translated into six European languages (Charles
Kent in DNB). Emily Dickinson wrote to her cousins, Louise and Fanny Norcross, in a
January, 1885 letter: "A friend sent me 'Called Back'. It is a haunting story,
and...greatly impressive to me." (Letters, 1894, v.2, p.299). The last letter she is believed to have written, to the same cousins, contained just four words: "Little Cousins,
- Called back" (undated, just before the 15th May, 1886, which was the day she died).
Dickinson titled few of her poems; when Mabel Loomis Todd published Poems in 1891
she gave the title "Called Back" to the early poem beginning "Just lost, when I was
saved...". Dickinson's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, replaced the original tombstone, which simply said "E.D.D.", with another that "...included Dickinson's birth and
death dates as well as the phrase 'Called Back'" (Dickinson Museum website, Amherst). With the bookplate of Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the last German emperor, and
his ownership stamp on the title. The edges of the spine are rubbed, the marbled paper with a few bubbles, both hinges repaired, original endpapers laid down. A Very
Good copy. $150
Dowden, Edward see under Bancroft, George
Dwight, John Sullivan see under Curtis, George William
23. Field, Kate. Autograph Letter, Signed. To "Mr. Bell", dated Victoria Hotel, Oct.
20, '85. Apologizing for the delay, but "I am a bird of passage...I am now about to
leave for Boston. Will you breakfast with me here...." - she lived at the Victoria Hotel,
New York. Two conjugate leaves, two pages, folded once for mailing, a light stain on
p.4 (blank). In Fine condition. $85
24. French, Daniel C. (Chester). Two Typed Letters, Signed. Dated February 14,
1920, and April 10, 1920, both to W.F. Paris, Esq., of New York City. With a carbon of
Paris's reply to the February letter. In answer to a previous communication by Paris, French offers to provide a bust of the late artist William Merritt Chase, in bronze
or marble, for $2,500, which is half his normal price. And, he has no news about "the
Ogilvy bust", but will convey it when he gets some. The return letter to French expresses gratitude for offering a nice discount, and Paris will convey that offer to the
"students of the late master", who will be raising the money for the bust, which is to
be erected at New York University. This cataloguer can find no evidence that French
completed a William Merritt Chase commission. In French's April letter, he explains to
Paris the best way to succeed in donating "the bust as a gift" to the Metropolitan Museum. "As I told you, the matter has already been brought up informally by me, before the sculpture committee." This must be referring to the "Ogilvy bust" mentioned
in French's first letter, certainly the marble bust (there was also a bronze version) of
Clinton Ogilvie (1838-1900), American landscape artist, by Paul Wayland Bartlett
(1865-1925) done in 1920, and donated to the Metropolitan Museum by Ogilvie's
widow. The Met was aided in the acquisition of the marble bust by the above W.
Franklyn Paris, who also "oversaw the gift of the bronze version for the Hall of Ameri-

can Artists (at New York University)" - (Catalogue of Sculpture in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, V.II, Artists born between 1865 and 1885, p.462). Each French letter is
one page, on toned paper, folded for mailing, in Very Good condition. The W.F. Paris
carbon is also one page, toned, with edge chipping, in Good condition. $500
25. Froude, James Anthony. Four Autograph Letters, Signed. None indicate the
year they were written. Three are to unknown correspondents; one is to the Italian
philosophy professor Vincenzo Botta, married to the American writer and socialite
Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta. Subjects include arranging a meeting (2); discussing the
publisher Longmans, and what kind of arrangements a writer can expect to make with
a publisher; and to Botta, discussing the Berean people who want to be in constant
communication with me..I am like a bear tied to a stake..and I tied myself to it!.
Ten pages total, Very Good to Fine condition. $350
26. Gale, Zona. Birth. New York: Macmillan, 1918. First edition. Original sage cloth,
gilt lettered and decorated, 402 pp., 2 leaves of ads. Inscribed and signed by Miss
Gale: "That no one is wholly commonplace - that everyone is wholly precious - since
second birth, spiritual birth, is his birthright. Zona Gale. 1919. A feminist, activist, and
friend of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small soil spot on front, free endpapers toned, but a Fine copy. $150
27. Gallico, Paul. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris. New York: Doubleday, 1958. First American edition. Original quarter cloth, gilt, and printed paper boards, in pictorial dust
jacket. A presentation copy: "Lenny and Sylvia (Lyons) with love and gratitude for
their friendship. Paul Gallico, Jan. 1959." Leonard Lyons was a columnist ("The Lyon's
Den) for the New York Post. The cloth bubbled at the lower corner near the spine on
both boards, edges dust soiled, Fair. The jacket spine water stained, some tearing and
wear to the edges. $75

28. Greeley, Horace. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Walters & Calvert, New Haven. A
bust portrait, in a heavy overcoat, looking directly at the camera, probably taken in
the 1860's. A little toning, Very Good. $47.50
29. Guiney, Louise Imogen. Brownies and Bogles. Boston: D. Lothrop, (1888). First
edition, binding A (BAL 6721). Original pale green cloth, gilt lettered, decorated pictorially in gilt, medium green, and black, with fifty illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett,
174 pp. Light wear and dust soiling, a Very Good copy. $300
Hale, Edward Everett see under Clarke, James Freeman
30. Harte, Bret. Poems. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1871. First edition, (BAL 7253,
printing 2). Beautifully bound in modern full navy morocco, two red leather labels, gilt
lettered, elaborately decorated with gilt rules and flowers; two playing cards, both
jacks of hearts, inlaid to the front in a fan pattern; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endpa-

pers. With all three panels of the original purple cloth, gilt lettered and decorated,
embossed stars, bound in at the rear, and the author's signature on a calling card
pasted to the front flyleaf. The first appearance in a book of Harte's most famous poem, best known as "Heathen Chinee" but originally and here entitled "Plain Language
from Truthful James". In the poem, the narrator and Bill Nye sit down to a game of
"euchre" with a Chinese laborer, Ah Sin. They are planning to strip the Chinese man of
his money by cheating - extra cards being up Nye's sleeves. To their surprise and dismay, Ah Sin displays a card already in the narrator's hand, and is discovered to have
many more cards up his sleeve. The two white men beat Ah Sin to a pulp, declaring
that "We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor". Euchre is a game of trumps, and the
jack is highest card in the trump suit. This poem was first printed in The Overland
Monthly in September, 1870. It was immediately reprinted as "Heathen Chinee" in
several broadside editions - 19 are listed in BAL. Much of the popularity was due to
the fear of competition from Chinese labor buyers completely missing the irony and
Hartes point. Light foxing, a Fine copy in an interesting, lovely binding. $450
31. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Carte de Visite. Imprint of (James Wallace) Black, Boston. A bust portrait, in a coat with a black velvet collar, looking to his right, taken in
the early '60's. In Fine condition. $125
With Higginson letters
32. [Higginson, Thomas Wentworth] Lanier, Sidney. Poems of Sidney Lanier. Edited
by His Wife, with a Memorial by William Hayes Ward. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1891. Second edition (BAL 11273). A reprint except for seven poems here collected for the first time. Original gray cloth, gilt. Association copy: "Albert G. Smith
from his friend T.W. Higginson. Oct. 10. 1891". Laid in are three autograph notes,
signed by Higginson; two are undated to Albert Smith and one postcard, dated Oct. 2,
1890, to Joseph Linden Smith. In addition, Higginson has written on the rear free endpaper what appears to be a quotation, about 4 lines, source unknown. A little wear
and soiling, a Very Good copy. $200
33. Howells, William Dean. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Warren's, Boston. Howells is
young, perhaps 25-30, seated in an overstuffed chair, right elbow on the chair arm,
fingers of both hands interlocked. A Fine carte. $75
34. Howells, W.D. (William Dean). A Pair of Patient Lovers. New York and Boston:
Harper & Brothers, 1901. First edition, printing A (BAL 9739). Original half cloth,
lettered and decorated in gilt, and marbled paper boards, gilt decorated, top edge
gilt, others uncut, 368 pp. Very light wear, a Fine copy.
$60
35. Huxley, Julian, editor. Aldous Huxley 1894-1963. A Memorial Volume. London:
Chatto and Windus, 1965. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy, in original printed
wrappers, illustrated, 175 pp. Pasted to the front is a printed Chatto and Windus label

with holograph "Publication - October 1965 / Prob. 25s". With 27 brief memoirs of
Huxley from friends and family, including T.S. Eliot, Anita Loos, Leonard Woolf, and
Christopher Isherwood. Aldous Huxley was from a long line of prominent English writers. His grand-fathers were Thomas Arnold, historian and headmaster of Rugby, and
Thomas Henry Huxley, "Darwin's bulldog". An uncle was poet Matthew Arnold, an
aunt was novelist Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward. A Fine copy. $90
36. Jerrold, Douglas William. Carte de Visite. Imprint of the London Stereoscopic
and Photographic Co., a bust portrait, body skewed to his left but looking at the camera, taken perhaps in the mid-1850's. Jerrold was a popular dramatist of common
themes and a journalist, especially with Punch. Very light foxing, a Very Good carte.
$75
King, Thomas Starr see under Bancroft, George
37. Knowles, (Sir) James. Six Autograph Letters, Signed. Dates range from 1878 to
1901, one on the letterhead of The Nineteenth Century, to various correspondents.
One gently returns, for lack of space, a manuscript on the "Immortality of Animals";
four are cordial refusals of invitations; one is the draft manuscript, with an explanation, for "...the little hand bill which we propose to print & circulate about the Children's Toy Fund." Sir James Knowles (1831-1908) was trained as an architect and
practiced for 30 years. He contributed articles to literary and philosophical journals,
eventually becoming editor of the Contemporary Review, then founding and editing
The Nineteenth Century, a "...platform where men of all parties and persuasions might
address the public in their own names -- no anonymous writing was permitted". It
was very profitable. He was a charter member of "The Metaphysical Society", formed
to discuss the foundations of morality. (Sidney Lee in DNB). Scattered soiling and
staining but essentially a Fine group of letters totaling seven pages. $125
Lanier, Sidney see under Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
38. Leech, John. Carte de Visite. Imprint of McLean and Co., London. Taken in 1863
(National Portrait Gallery). Leech (1817-1864) was a popular Victorian illustrator, especially for Punch. An identification in ink, and some light spotting - dirty negative? A
Very Good carte. $60
39. Lemon, Mark. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Caldesi, Blandford & Co., London.
Standing, right fist on a table, left hand in his coat pocket, taken in the late 1850's or
early '60's. Lemon was the founding editor of Punch. Image toned, mounting adhesions on the obverse of the card. In Very Good condition. $75

Publishers personal copy

40. (Lowell, James Russell). The Biglow Papers. Second Series. New York: Ticknor
and Fields, 1867. First American edition, printing 1 (BAL 13126). Original green cloth,
gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and blind. Howard Malcolm Ticknor's copy, his ownership signature, "H.M. Ticknor", on the title. He was the eldest son of William D. Ticknor, the founder of the firm; he began working there in 1856. By the time the present
volume was published, his father had died (in 1864) and he was in partnership with
James T. Fields, James Riley Osgood, and John Spenser Clark (Winship, 1995, p.22). No
wear at all; light foxing to the edges and parts of the text. A Very Good copy. $200
Lowell, James Russell see under Norton, Charles Eliot
41. Mathews, Cornelius. Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated "Office of the New Yorker, 195 Fulton Dr., Nov. 27, 1860". To Henry Morford, Esq.: "The Vision of the CoffinMaker's 'Prentice" was an episode in the 'much Vilipended' novel Entitled Puffer Hopkins which is now & has been for this many a day out of print." He says he can get one
for Morford if he needs one. Mathews published The Career of Puffer Hopkins in
1841. Both Mathews and Morford wrote fiction and edited periodicals in New York.
James Russell Lowell, in A Fable for Critics (1841) depreciated Mathews as - "a small
man in glasses (who) went dodging about, muttering, 'murderers, asses!'" One page, a
half sheet cut from a larger sheet after the letter was written, cutting off the end of
one word, but with no loss of sense. Folded as though for mailing, a Fine letter. $70
May, Samuel, Jr. see under Clarke, James Freeman
42. Milman, Henry Hart. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Mason and Co., London. Taken
in about 1860, seated, holding a book. Milman was poet, dramatist, historian, and
Dean of St. Paul's. Some toning, mounting adhesions to obverse. Very Good. $32.50
43. (Mitchell, Dond. G.) (Donald Grant Mitchell). My Farm of Edgewood: A Country
Book. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. A reprint. Original green cloth, gilt
lettered and decorated, all edges cut, top edge gilt, title in red and black, 329 pp. Inscribed and signed: "To my friend Mr. Coley with Kindest regards of Dond. G. Mitchell. Edgewood, Jany 1892". With the bookplate of James E. Coley, and later penciled
ownership signature of M.C. Gates. Very light wear, edges dust soiled. A Very Good
copy. $90
Prominent New England Families
44. [Morse, John Torrey, Jr.] Family Album of Cartes de Visite. Early 1860's
through 1870's, many with Civil War revenue stamps. Pictures of biographer Morse ,
his wife, two sons, father, several generations of near and extended family, and some
friends. Forty-six cartes remain; this album, once completely full, has space for ninety

 the missing cartes included some well-known literary figures. Many are labeled in a
contemporary hand, most are annotated on the album leaves in a later hand, about
1910's. Missing cartes, as indicated by holograph captions under the empty mounts,
included Louisa May Alcott, Celia Thaxter, Oscar Leighton, Dr. and Mrs. O.W. Holmes,
O.W. Holmes Jr. Morse cartes include John Torrey Jr., several of his wife Fanny, his
father John Torrey Sr., mother Lucy Cabot Jackson Morse, uncle Samuel T., Charles T.,
Burton E., children John Torrey III, Cabot J., and some other children. There are many
Morse relatives from other prominent families, including Margaret Perkins Forbes the mother of John Murray Forbes, and his daughter Alice Forbes, Sewell Tappan, his
wife Elizabeth, their son William Rollins Tappan and daughters Fanny and Marian, Rev.
Dr. John Pierce of Brookline, Harvard overseer for 33 years, and his wife, E. W. Rollins,
Mrs. E. Rollins, Rev. William Silsbee, Miss Adie Bigelow, the childhood friend of Clover
Adams, President John Adams, Mrs. Adams, and Henry Lee, an East India merchant,
and his wife Mary - they were the parents of Colonel Henry Lee, subject of a biography
by Morse, as were President Adams and O.W. Holmes, Sr. The album leaves are
brittle; the rear cover and spine are missing. $300
45. Motley, John L. (Lothrop). Carte de Visite. Imprint of Lucas & Box, London. Bust
portrait of the historian (Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1856) and diplomat (U.S. Minister
to Austria, England), eyes to his right, perhaps taken in the 1860's. In Fine condition.
$60
The Oxford Movement
46. Newman, John Henry. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. London: James Toovey, 1845. First edition (NCBEL v.3, 1314). Original green cloth, printed
paper label, 453 pp. plus one page of ads. Newman, as a priest in the Anglican church,
became an important figure in the Oxford or Tractarian Movement. In this volume he lays out evidence in an attempt to demonstrate which contemporary Christian
church is most like the original and therefore most true. He satisfied himself before he
had finished, and converted to Catholicism. Some rubbing, a small chip at each spine
end. Spine and some of the rear board sunned to green, spine label darkened but unworn. A few splash marks to cloth. A Good, sound copy. $125
47. Norton, Charles Eliot. Seven Autograph Letters, One Quotation, Signed. Dates
range from 1865 to 1906. Correspondents include Caroline A. Farley, Rev. Julius H.
Ward, L.J.B. Lincoln, W.B. Wheelwright; subjects include discussion of making a collection of James Russell Lowells writings, a long and extensive task; thanks for the
praise of Nortons Dante studies; ordering a book (Hutchinsons Papers) and directing it to the store of Messrs Ticknor & Fields; thanks for a lovely gift; arranging
for a meeting at Shady Hill to discuss the upcoming Memorial Day (1901); and declining an invitation. The quotation is from Shakespeares Anthony and Cleopatra: "I

have [no] immortal longings in me" (Cleopatra). The no did not appear in the Bards
play, but was added by Norton. Twelve pages, mostly Fine. $475
48. [Norton, Charles Eliot] Washington Holograph Manuscripts and Other Exceedingly Rare Americana.from the Libraries of the Late Charles Eliot Norton.(and)
the Late James Terry. New York: American Art Association, 1923. First edition. An
auction catalogue, original printed wrappers, illustrated, 774 lots. A few realized prices are inked in. Soiled, lower spine chipped, some owner annotations, a Very Good
copy. With: Important Autographs from the Collections of A.W. Tillinghast, the Late
Charles Eliot Norton, the Late G.W.H. Ritchie, and Others. New York: American Art
Association, Anderson Galleries, 1930. First edition. An auction catalogue, in original
printed wrappers, with some facsimiles, 386 lots. Light wear and soiling, a Very Good
copy. Neither catalogue identifies the consignor of each lot. $85
49. Norton, Charles Eliot. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton. Boston and New York:
Houghton, Mifflin, 1913. First edition. Two Volumes, complete. One of 250 copies
"bound entirely uncut with paper label." Original quarter cloth, printed paper label,
gilt, and paper boards, illustrated. Just a little erosion to the sensitive labels, very little
wear, else Fine and unopened. $60
50. Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee). Carte de Visite. Imprint of the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co., a bust portrait, her head swiveled to her left, her hair
down and rather in need of brushing, taken about 1865. A popular English novelist,
she wrote pot-boilers. Light foxing, card a little toned. A Good carte. $75
51. Parker, Theodore. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Black and Case, Boston. A
"vignette" style image - Parker is about 50, a bust portrait. Photographer James Wallace Black (1825-1896) is known to have produced the first clear aerial photograph
(from a balloon) in October, 1860. It was of Boston. See Steele and Polito, p.29. A Fine
carte. $125
52. Parton, Sarah Willis (Fanny Fern). Carte de Visite. Imprint of (Jeremiah) Gurney,
(New York). From the waist up, head angled toward her left, left fist on her cheek.
Nathaniel Parker Willis was her brother. In Fine condition. $75
53. [Peabody, Ephraim] Morison, J.H. (John Hopkins). Autograph Letter, Signed.
Dated Boston, Feb. 10, 1840. "Dear (Ephraim) Peabody", discussing his schedule for
the near future: "Mr. Putnam will preach for us next sunday, Mr. Lothrop the sunday
following.....(I) preached yesterday for Mr. Gannett & Mr. Bartol." He will stop in Salem for a day or two on his way home to New Bedford. He and Peabody were copastors at the Unitarian church there. One sheet, one page. A little foxing. A Very
Good letter. $60

54. [Peabody, Ephraim]. Two Eulogies of Ephraim Peabody. Weiss, John. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D.D., Pastor of Kings Chapel, Boston: Preached Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford...", published in New Bedford, 1856, by the Society. Issue 1, with "sodid" corrected in pencil
to "sordid" on p.18, l.17. A presentation copy: "Dr. Sprague with the respects of
J.Weiss". With: another copy, this issue 2, with "sodid" corrected in type to "sordid".
Both in original printed wrappers, 28pp. Plus: Robbins, Chandler. Character of Ephraim
Peabody. Cambridge: Metcalf, 1857. Original printed wrappers, 12 pp., an offprint
from the Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal for January, 1857. A
presentation copy: "J. Dalton, Esq. with the respects of C.R.". Ephraim Peabody (18071856) was the son of a blacksmith, a graduate of Bowdoin College, and a product of
the Harvard Divinity School. Called to minister at Cincinnati, he helped James Freeman
Clarke edit the Western Messenger in the early years of that journal. His next post was
at New Bedford (see prior offering) before moving on the Boston's King's Chapel,
where he focused on helping the poor until his death of tuberculosis (online Dictionary of Unitarian/Universalist Biography). All three pamphlets with some edge chipping, the first and third a little soiled, Very Good. The second without wrappers, the
string that binds is giving up, but a clean copy.
$125

57. Sedgwick, C.M. (Catharine Maria). Autograph Letter, Signed. To a Mr. McGuire,
dated New York, May 2, 1854, thanking him for the opportunity to view his collection
of "...pictures & autographs. He who, by the expenditure of time trouble & money
amasses pleasures of the highest order & generously admits others to their participation is a Benefactor...". A half sheet, one page, Fine. $125

Poe, Edgar Allan see under Whitman, Sarah Helen

60. Sheppard, Elizabeth. Rumour. In Two Volumes. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1893.
First edition thus, with the Harriet Prescott Spofford preface (BAL 18509). Original
green cloth, gilt, decorated in white. From the library of collector DeWitt Miller, with
his signature. Again, as the above, unaccountably scarce in any edition. Somewhat
worn and soiled, a Good copy. $75

55. Prescott, William H. (Hickling). Carte de Visite. Imprint of E. Anthony, New York.
Waist up, looking to his right, historian Prescott is about 60. A little soiling on the obverse, Very Good. $37.50
Robbins, Chandler see under Peabody, Ephraim
56. Rochester, Earl of; John Wilmot; Isaac Watts. The Repentance and Happy Death
of the Celebrated Earl of Rochester. Nottingham: Sutton and Son, The Review Office,
1814. Probably a reprint - this appeared in several undated issues at about the same
time. Cover title, one sheet, quarto, each leaf 4 x 6 inches, woodcut illustration on the
cover - the poet at his desk. An anonymous summary of the life and death of the 2nd
Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), notorious libertine poet, who is held up as an example
of the comfort brought by repentance of one's sins, no matter how many or how hideous they may be. It closes with a poem by Isaac Watts, 16 lines beginning "Strephon of
noble blood and mind,...". Publisher Charles Sutton edited the Nottingham Review at
this time; his grandson was the poet Henry Septimus Sutton (Evangel of Love,
Quiniquenergia), friend of Emerson, noted for his spiritual poetry; he eventually became an influential Swedenborgian. Unopened. On delicate paper, but clean and fresh
though most folds are tender, with some separation beginning. A Very Good copy.
$95

58. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems. London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819. First edition (Granniss, 1923). Early 20th century
green full morocco, lettered in gilt, elaborately decorated in a flowering vine pattern
in gilt and red, gilt inner dentelles, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, retaining the half title.
Collates (A)4 (B)-F8 G6 (conjugate leaves of ads, G7 and G8, lacking). Expert repair to
the front joint, light wear, a Very Good, lovely copy. $2500
59. (Sheppard, Elizabeth). Almost a Heroine. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
First American edition. Original brown cloth, gilt, decorated in blind. First published
in London in 1853, and scarce in any edition. By the author of Charles Auchester
(1853), The Double Coronet, (1856), Rumour, (1858). Miss Sheppard (1830-1862) is
said to have written romance novels much like Benjamin Disraelis, who helped her
get the first one published. (DNB). A little cocked and rubbed, a Good copy. $125

Silliman, Benjamin Jr. see under Tyndall, John

61. Stanley, Henry M. (Morton). Through the Dark Continent. New York: Harper
and Brothers, 1878-1879. In two volumes, complete. First American edition. Original
green cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, red, and black, illustrated with woodcuts,
522, 566 pp., a large folded map in a pocket in each volume. Volume 1 dated 1879 on
the title page, v.2 dated 1878 - a mixed printing? The first printing was 1878. Maps
tender at folds. Light rubbing, a Very Good, lovely copy, colors bright. $500
Sterling, John see under Thoreau, Thalatta
62. Stoddard, Charles Warren. Carte de Visite, Signed. Imprint of Chalmers and
Wolfe, San Francisco - this is an early photograph of Stoddard (1843-1909) - he is
about 25. Inscribed and signed on the obverse to "C.H. Webb, Esq From his friend
Chas. Warren Stoddard, S+F - 29th July '68". This must have been Charles Henry
Webb, for a few years a journalist in San Francisco - where he met Stoddard, Bret
Harte, and Samuel Clemens. He edited and published Clemens's first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (BAL 3310). He was also a poet, humorist,

playwright, banker, and inventor patenting an adding machine and a cartridge loading machine (DAB). The Mark Twain Project, Bancroft Library, University of California,
has a carte of Webb, inscribed on the back to Stoddard, dated 21 March, 1877. A little
spotting to the image, soiling, toning to the card, light chipping to two corners, but in
Good condition. $600
63. Taylor, Bayard. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Sarony, New York. A bust portrait,
wearing a Russian style fur cap, his shoulders square with the camera, his head swiveled to his left. Taylor is about 50. The card a little toned, the image with nice contrast. $35
64. Taylor, Tom. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Lacy Theatrical Bookseller, London. Seated at a table, hands on a book, looking at the camera, taken perhaps in the 1860's.
Englishman Tom Taylor was an attorney and a popular dramatist, an editor of Punch,
and a high ranking, well paid bureaucrat (DNB). His play, Our American Cousin, was
the attraction at the Ford Theater the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. Four mounting
adhesions on the obverse, else Fine. $100
65. Thoreau, Henry D. (David). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881. Second edition, probably the 5th printing, somewhere
close to 150 copies (see Borst, p.9). Original green cloth, gilt lettered, beveled edges,
415 pp. Ownership label and signature of James Knapp Reeve, dated 1881. Reeve was
a novelist (Vawder's Understudy - A Study in Platonic Affection, 1896; The Three Richard Whalens, 1897) from Franklin, Ohio. Lightly rubbed at the edges, clean with gilt
bright. A Very Good copy. $90
66. [Thoreau, Henry David, et al] Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. First edition (BAL 1380; Borst C1). Original medium brown cloth,
gilt-lettered (THALATTA/TICKNOR & CO.), decorated in blind, 206 pp., top and foreedges cut, chocolate endpapers. Bound without ads at the front. An anthology, edited
anonymously by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Longfellow (Cambridge
Public Library, 1906 Bibliography of. Higginson). Thoreau's contribution is "My Life is
Like a Stroll". Heavy on Transcendentalist favorites, including Englishmen: three poems by William Allingham, one by John Sterling, and one by Arthur Hugh Clough, who
was living in Boston at the time. He wrote to his fiance back in England (Mulhauser,
Correspondence, II, 429) "There is an infinity of trash in the book - but it is prettily
printed, and Mr. Fields the bookseller gave it me this morning." Lightly chipped at the
top of the spine; paper a little toned. A Very Good copy. $275
66a. Another copy: With differences from the above, in cloth color; lettering and font
on the spine; endpaper color; which edges are cut and uncut; and, ads are present in
this one. (BAL 1380; Borst C1). Original dark brown cloth, gilt-lettered (THALATTA/
rule/A BOOK/for/the Sea-Side/TICKNOR & CO.), decorated in blind, 206 pp., fore and

bottom edges cut, pumpkin endpapers. Inserted between the front endpapers are 4
leaves of ads dated May, 1853. Lightly chipped at the top of the spine, two quarter
inch holes in the cloth farther down, and a smaller one on the back board; the ad
leaves age-toned. A Very Good copy. $250
67. Torrey, Bradford. Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated Wellesley Hills, 5 March,
1900. To "My dear Mr. Moody" (Winfield Scott Moody, editor of Scribner's The Book
Buyer). Torrey had been sent the proofs of a "Forestry book" and asked to include a
review of it in his article, due to appear in a later issue of The Book Buyer. He says he
doesn't see how he can fit it in, and apologizes, hoping Moody isn't too disappointed.
He thanks Moody for the article by John Wright Buckham "The Modern School of Nature Interpretation", in the March, 1900 issue, "for its very handsome treatment of
my books. All but the portrait I thank you for. That -- well, that I forgive you for." Torrey, who was a nature writer, is today best known for editing the Journals of Henry
David Thoreau (14 volumes, 1906). Two conjugate leaves, two pages, light toning,
Very Good. $75
68. [Ticknor, George] Parker, Nathan. Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated Portsmouth, April 1, 1827. To George Ticknor, answering questions about Nathaniel Appleton Haven, Portsmouth lawyer and man of letters, who had recently died. Ticknor
produced Remains of Nathaniel Appleton Haven, With a Memoir of His Life, in 1827 in
a very small private printing for friends and family. The first published edition was
issued in 1828. Parker, Unitarian minister at Portsmouth, had known Haven well; he
agrees with Ticknor that "Miss Green" should be left out of the memoir. He goes on at
length about the question of Haven's theological status, pronouncing him a Unitarian
at the end, even though his father had been a prominent Congregational minister in
Portsmouth. Then, "I have read your memoir with great pleasure" and he talks about
townsmen, friends, and family of Haven who were also pleased with it. It is not clear
what version of the memoir he has read, whether a manuscript, the private printing
of 1827, or some other. Parker was an early Unitarian -- he was present in Baltimore
at the ordination of Jared Sparks, when William Ellery Channing gave his famous sermon proclaiming the Unitarian theology. One large sheet, folded, three pages closely
written, more than 550 words. The fourth page bears the address and remains of
sealing wax. A Fine letter. $250
69. Tyndall, John. Six Autograph Letters, Signed. Dated from 1871 to 1892. Correspondents include a Mr. Smith, Yale chemist Benjamin Silliman, Jr., and several unknown. Subjects include his lengthy itinerary while at Yale; a brief update of progress
on a paper; acknowledging receipt of your little packet upon his return from the
Alps; suggesting proper wording in a very important letter; a long refusal to join in a
charitable cause that he admires; his description of having met James Bowling Mozley
- his antagonist in science v. religion controversies how simple minded he ap-

pears to be. Seven pages, Good to Fine, moisture has blurred the ink on one page.
$675
70. Tyndall, John. Carte de Visite. Imprint of Maull and Polyblank, London. Full
length, standing, an umbrella in his right hand, leaning on a chair with his left, with his
left ankle crossed over his right. Taken perhaps in the early 1860's. Tyndall was a physicist and a mountaineer. A little soiling, an ink identification under the image. Very
Good. $75
Weiss, John see under Peabody, Ephraim
71. Whitman, Walt. Selected Poems. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition (Myerson C7.1.a1). Original grey cloth, gilt lettered. Edited by Arthur Stedman.
With the inserted page of McKay ads, and the McKay imprint at the foot of the spine.
A Fine copy. $150

Young, Jr., and two letters from a lawyer in response, objecting to the suggestion that
the collection might be transferred, because of inability to properly house it, to Wagner College. The academy still operates, and lists the collection as part of its Stanley
Library - ost of the preceding in Fine condition. Finally, Frederick Partington's copy of
The Arthur Winter Memorial Library in The Staten Island Academy, Saint George, New
Brighton, New York: (No place, no publisher), 1906. Contemporary red leather, gilt
lettered and decorated, and marbled paper boards, 93 pp., which includes a description of the origin of the library, an elegy on Arthur by his father, the eulogy pronounced by George William Curtis at the funeral, three photographic plates, 2 of the
library and one of Arthur as a teen, and a comprehensive catalogue of the collection.
Some wear to the leather, Very Good. $475

72. Whitman, Sarah Helen. Edgar Poe and His Critics. New York: Rudd & Carleton,
1860. First edition, printing A, binding a (BAL 21368). Original brown cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and blind, chocolate endpapers, 81pp., three leaves of ads at the rear.
Miss Whitman defends Poe from gratuitous attacks - she had once been engaged to
him. She edited a collection of his essays and poems in 1876. Very little wear, spine
gilt dull, slightly cocked. A Very Good copy. $200
73. [Winter, William]. Archive, Arthur Winter Memorial Library, the Staten Island
Academy. Arthur Winter (1872-1886) was a student at the Staten Island Academy
when he died in a sledding accident. His parents, William and Elizabeth Winter, established on campus a memorial library in his name. William Winter was an author and
theater critic who was well connected with American literary society - he solicited, in
memory of his son, signed portraits and first editions from some of the most celebrated authors of the age. This archive includes a manuscript contract specifying the terms
of the presentation to the academy, signed by William and Elizabeth Winter, the academy president, headmaster Frederick Partington, and others, notarized; a typed copy
of the contract as filed at the county clerk's office; a holograph copy in an unknown
hand of an 1886 letter from Winter to Headmaster Partington suggesting the library
project, unsigned but Winter has added later that he had subsequently decided to
make the library a trust rather than a gift, to protect it from being attached for debt;
three sheets of notes and calculations on mundane academy business in Winter's
hand - he was a trustee of the academy for many years; an empty envelope from Winter's friend the actress Ellen Terry to Partington, addressed in her hand; a carte de
visite photograph of Arthur at six years old; a photograph of a drawing of Arthur at
about the time of his death; a 4 page printed prospectus of Winter, dated about 1910,
from his long-time publisher Moffat and Yard, listing more than 30 works; 5 carbon
copies of 1950's correspondence from Winter heirs Viola Winter Brown and Robert

Bret Harte, Poems, 1871

Arthur Winter

Browning

Milmsn

R.H.Dana

Fields

Greeley

Motley

Hawthorne

Howells

Lytton

Prescott

Parker

Parton (Fanny Fern)

Stoddard