American historian, cabinet member and diplomat. ALS, 1p, 4½" X 7", Newport, RI, 1853 November 2. Very good. Minor foxing along top edge; mounting traces on verso. Sends a check for $575 "which please put to my credit in account." Accompanied by a fine carte-de-visite portrait photograph [Gurney & Son..... More
Pulitzer Prize-winning (for novel "So Big," 1924) American novelist and short story writer, often remembered for "Giant" (1952); wrote "Show Boat" with George S. Kaufman. TNS, 1p, 6" X 7", New York, NY, 1953 May 1. Addressed to Frances F. Nielsen. Near fine. Single faint horizontal fold. On imprinted "E..... More
One of Dryden's patrons, represented as Hushai in his 1681 poem "Absalom and Achitophel" ("Hushai the friend of David in distress, in publick storms of manly stedfastness; By Foreign Treaties he inform'd his Youth; And join'd Experience to his Native Truth. Frugal for that, but bounteous of his own: 'Tis..... More
Considered a pre-feminist heroine by some such as Germaine Greer, this English poet and novelist, known as "L.E.L.," published prolifically through the 1820s and '30s and was highly regarded by many, but rumors of sexual liaisons and her early death mistakenly assumed to have been poisoning tarnished her reputation. AES..... More
This popular Irish poet ("The Book of Irish Ballads" 1846, "Irish Legends and Lyrics" 1858, "Poems" 1882, etc.) was fascinated by Spanish literature and translated many of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's plays. AMS, 1p, 4½" X 7", London, England, n.y. Near fine. Faint mounting trace on verso along left..... More
The British poet laureate (named 1813), one of the famed "Lake poets," cranked out lengthy "serious" poems galore ("Thalaba," "Madoc," "Roderick," etc.), but it is for anthologized short pieces such as "After Blenheim" and "Stanzas Written in My Library" that he is remembered, as well as for his nonfiction and..... More