Autograph letter signed J. R. Lowell to Unknown Collector! ; Cambridge, 9 March 1860
$350 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 full pages, 8vo. Traces of mounting on verso of integral leaf, else fine. Item #409440 An amusing response to an autograph collector requesting an autograph manuscript poem and who apparently sent an inkstand along with his request : ... You shouldn't have sent me the inkstand–for I don't like being deadheaded, & moreover I learn from an advertisement that my autograph is
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