Autograph Letter, signed “Theodore Dreiser” , to Frederick W. Skiff
$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
Pen and ink on printed letterhead. 8vo. Old folds, else fine. Item #213201 Not long after publication of AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY and at the height of his fame, novelist Theodore Dreiser responds to a letter from Portland, Oregon, collector Frederick W. Skiff, who later sold his American literature collection to Mrs. Estelle Doheny, “I think you had best take a look at the portrait in the April Vanity Fair. If that pleases I will secure a copy
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