A Hawthorne collection
Subtitle: important letters and manuscripts including a four-page letter from Herman Melville to Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne concerning "Moby Dick", the property of a descendant of Hawthorne
Publisher: The Galleries
Published: 1931
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Hawthorne, Melville, Clemens, Burroughs, Whitman :
Notes: Sale code: 3911

207 lots.

"Rare first editions, autograph letters, manuscripts, presentation copies of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), the property of Irving S. Underhill, Buffalo, N.Y.; Whitman-Borroughs correspondence of an intimate character, first editions and association copies, mss. and diaries of John Burroughs, the property of the late Dr. Clara Barrus, Burroughs' literary executor; sold by their order."

McKay 9338

Date of sale: April 29, 1931.