Autograph Letter, Signed H. Melville , to Rossiter Johnson
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Written in brown ink, dated in another hand likely Johnson's , 1 p. 8vo. Integral blank leaf apparently removed Davis and Gilman reported that it was written on the same paper as that of Melville's 29 January 1888 letter to Edmund C. Stedman Horth ; old folds; very good. Custom cloth folding case. Horth, Lynn, ed., Herman Melville: Correspondence, Northwestern U. Press, 1993, pp. 503-504. Item #369787 In December, Rossiter
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