STEIN, Gertrude.

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Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper verso, "To Emily Dawson"; one of only 300 copies. Dawson was part of Stein's circle in Paris and humorously acknowledged in Stein's A Novel of Thank You: "We know three Emilys Emily Dawson Emily Chadbourne Emily Harden" (sic). In 1908, after a visit to Stein, Dawson wrote upon her return to London: "I've tried sometimes for quite 3 or 4 minutes - to sit, receptive and dumb, before the recollection of some of the Paris things you showed me! - There is no result except an intensifying of the wish to see it all again" (27 December 1908). Stein in turn instructed Dawson to "send from London the English translations of the diary and letters of Madame D'Arblay (Fanny Burney), as well as the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Hugh Walpole, and the memoirs, if such existed, of William Tecumseh Sherman, Abraham Lincoln, and John Adams" (Maunsell, p. 238). In 1913 Stein was hoping to get some of her work published in England and visited London. Dawson's cousin, Logan Pearsall Smith, was a great admirer of Stein's work and wrote to Dawson: "I have heard from the editor of the English Review that he would like to see some of this prose, so perhaps you will ask Miss Stein to send him a specimen - the Mabel Dodge or anything else and he may like to publish it or an article about it" (22 January 1913).Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962), a wealthy American socialite and patron of many w

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