Lot 4425
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?) Journalist and author; disappeared and presumed to have died in Mexico. Autograph Letter Signed, Washington D.C., April 14, 1904, 3 pp, octavo. To close friend Lella Cotton, whose father had died. In part, "…Death being as natural a thing as birth, is no evil when it comes after 'length of days'…I do not know that it ever is….And poor Cottie [probably Lella's mother]…she must be sleepy for death; may it come to her as to one who 'lies down to pleasant dreams.' I am enough older than you, my comrade, to know, better than you, that death is not unfriendly to the aged. I could myself meet it with a smile….the unfriendly thing is bereavement, the sharpest of privations…." Bierce, who was the literary arbiter of the West, became discontent with life in America. He went to Mexico in 1913 and met Pancho Villa; he is thought to have died in a battle in January 1914.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500.
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