Autograph letter signed J. Fenimore Cooper , to Major William Edward Frye 1784-1853 . N.p., 9 April no year, ca. late 1830s

by James Fenimore Cooper

$1,100 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

One page, square 12mo 114 x 104 mm , a few pale stains, one short separation along fold. Item #403588 Cooper apparently returns a copy of a translation of Frithiof’s saga, or The legend of Frithiof by Esaias Tegner London, 1835 , edited and translated in part by Frye: “My dear Major, I send back the Danes, big and little, Swedes, ‘pioneers and all.’ We think ‘Frithiof’ a striking poem, and owe you an

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