Lot 702
[Authors] Group of Nine Authors: Jack London, Longfellow & Others. Katherine Lee Bates - Partly-printed document signed, being a Reading Room form for a book she wanted to read, 3½ x 8 in., no place, Sept. 8, no year;
Henry Ward Beecher - Signature in pencil on a 2 1/4 x 3½ in card;
J. Fenimore Cooper - Check signed and accomplished by Cooper, on the Otsego County Bank, July 6, 1842;
Edna Ferber - Typed letter signed, 1 page, 7 x 4½ in., Fifty Central Park West (NY), Nov 16, 1926, giving permission to Mrs. Hillis to use a quotation, as long as she credits it to the character in Ferber's book who uttered it;
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Signature, place and date (Boston March 31st 1865) a 1¾ x 3½ in. piece of paper laid to cardstock;
Rudyard Kipling - Signature on 1¾ x 3¾ in. paper laid to cardstock;
Jack London - Signature on 3 x 5 in. piece of paper, followed by "Suva, Fiji, June 5, 1908";
Henry W. Longfellow - Signature and year (1881), affixed to cardstock with a biographical surround;
Noah Webster - 2¾ x 3¼ in. paper signed, "Noah Webster / New Haven March 18 / 1843 / Born in West Hartford / Oct. 16, 1758";
Nine items; overall fine.
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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