Irving, Washington:

$1,400 · Offered by William Reese Company

[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WASHINGTON IRVING TO GEORGE POPE MORRIS, THANKING HIM FOR A COPY OF HIS LITERARY MISCELLANY]. An excellent letter to ["Col."] George Pope Morris, sending thanks for "the volume[s?] of your delightful miscellany which you have had the kindness to send me...and...to express the deep sense I entertain of the repeated...esteem and good will which you have manifested toward me for years past. These derive particular value in my eyes from that character for intelligence and worth which you have so honorably cast[?] for yourself in the community." Morris (1802-1864) was cofounder (and eventually sole proprietor) of the New-York Mirror and Ladies' Literary Gazette, a periodical which afforded an important medium for the works of the early Knickerbocker school of writers.

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