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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1653

Literary: 19th Century Greats Choice selection of autographs, including Autograph Letters Signed by "Henry W. Longfellow" (1879, identifying lines from his poem "´Footsteps of Angels´ in Voices of the Night,"); "Herbert Spencer" (1876, with social and a bit of anthropological content); and "W.M. Thackeray" (two, one declining an invitation, the other explaining that he does not want "to repeat my lectures on The Georges"). With Autograph Verse Signed by "William Cullen Bryant," his translation of an epigram by Martial, with AN presenting it to a daily paper. Bryant pages tipped to larger sheet with newsprint engraving. With period photograph of Bryant by Mora of NY and engraving of Longfellow. [7]

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