Autograph Letter, Signed, to Charles Leneman, Esq

by Evert Duyckinck

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

One page, with integral address sheet. Fine, old folds. Item #232897 Reading in part: “ I have a good anecdote for you. Bishop Doane has written me a letter 'would you do me the favour to ask Mr. Asher B. Durand 1796-1886 to panel a landscape for me.'” Duyckink, editor and publisher, was the leading arbiter of literary taste in antebellum New York. He assisted Poe in publication of his Tales and was a close friend and publisher of

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