Autograph Letter, signed “Love to all, Allan” , to Marc Bowman , a 12-page Survivor’s Account of the Sinking of the Lusitania

by Lusitania, Allan Beattie

$12,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Pen and ink on letterhead of Coman’s Hotel, 21 & 23 Castle Hill Avenue, 12 pages, 15 lines per page approx. 750 words . 4to. Old folds, large pinhole in top center margin. Old envelope of Lewis-Clark Hotel, Lewiston, Idaho, with “Allan Beatty’s letter” in ink. Fine. Half morocco clamshell box. Item #247162 “I got an awful smash in the back from the water and was thrown about thirty feet on my face. I got up and ran down stairs

• Binding: Leather

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