The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-22
a NEW FAD IN NEW YORK.
Collecting Signatures Of Famous Liv-
ing Persons

ing persons.
NEW YORK, Jan. -l.-One Of the new
/ fads Of the season is the collection Of auto
! graph letters from living men and women
/ One day this week a Broadway shopkeeper
showed me an odd collection and told me
the prices that he heped to get for each letter
One from Browning. the poet, is marked
! 500. y humorous letter 10 President Gar
/ heId signed Mark Twain, Is held a. -. Ihe
I great humorist saw:
IT seems 10 me that it is better TO have a
/ good mans flatterng estimate Of my intiu-
/ ence-and keep THAN to fool it away with
| trying to get him an Office
! 4 brief note signed by Willde Collins, the
! novelist, IS held at $50 Another from Sir
Charles Dixie, the English statesman,
whose escapdes caused such a sensation a
! year or more ago. is valued at 81. One from
Gen. John c. Fremont. the pathfinder and
the first candidate of the Republican party
Tor President, IS ticketed s. -. An auto
graph verse and signature by DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes is 81 o. A short letter
written by eloquent Bob Ingersoll is not
valued very highly 1t may be purchased
Tor 'oc. One from the Marquis Of Lorne,
ex-Governor-General of Canada, may be
had for 81 IS. Justin McCarthv's autograph
Is valued at the same figure. John Ruskin's
IS more highly prized II is held at 81 50
Clark Russell, the author Of so many weird
tales OF the sea, has a name that Is Of some
pecuniary moment II Is marked - 30. A
scrap of paper signed by Gen. w. T. Sher-
man viii besold for -. A letter Of Spur
geon, the famous English divine, in which he
mentions the Tory press is bullying me very
badly may be had for 81 p A letter
from Charles Algenron Swinhurne, apollo
giving for his lie ible handwriting, is val
ued at 81. One from Sir A thur Su llivan,
of operate fame. NAV be had for s. -.
Another from Alma Tadema, the distin-
gulshed English artist, IS held at 81 10 A
badly written note from Edmund Yates,
the English journalist, is quoted at 81 ..
The signature of Albani, the sweet singer,
may be had for 81 90 Horatio Alger, Jr.,
the writer of boys books, is not so high
priced. His may be had for SOC. Lawrence
Barrett the actor can get 81 for his own
signature; George Bancroft the historian,
81; james Gillespie Blaine, 81 p; Benjamin
F. Butler, SOC, George William Curtis, 25c. :;
Samuel Sunset Cox. the witty member of
the House, soc. James Freeman Clarke, the
eminent Boston divine. 81; Simon Cameron,
the Nestor of Keystone State politics, DC. :;
George W. Childs, editor of the Philadelphia
h dgeT, SOC, and the signature of his old
enemy, Charles \. Dana, editor of the New
York Stn, at the same figure; Rose Ey
tinge, the actress. SOC. Edison. the Menlo
PAX wizard, soc Emily Faithful, phian-
throphist and writer s %; Cyrus w.
Field, 81; Mary j. Holmes, the novelist,
SOC. ex-President Hayes, soc ; Joel Chand
Ter Harris, Uncle Remus, so james Rus
sell Lowell, 81 80; Modieska, the actress,
SOC. Levi 2. Morton. ex Minister to France,
only 25c.; Louise Chandler Moulton, the
Boston writer, 75c. Bin Nye, 59c. Edward
f. Rice, the theatrical manager, 95c. :;
and Stuart Robson, the comedian, 15c
a poem by Stedman, 5000; signature by
Carl Schurz, SOC. one John Sherman, 75c :;
Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, 81 50,
and lola, the French novelist, ST 50 Three
signatures by people Of the stage may be
had for SOC; they are Fanny Davenport,
Mary Anderson and Wilson Barrett. Sena-
tor Evarts Roscoe Conkhng, ex-senator
Malone, Senator Chandler, Fred Doug
lass, Speaker Carlisle, Steve Dorsey, Samuel
J. Randall and enator Vest for 25c. each.
The most costly signature is that of Ouida,
the novelist, s. 30, and the cheapest Boston's
only Mike Kelly the ball tosser, 10c.
FOSTER COATES.