TWAIN LECTURES ON THE SUBJECTS HE KNOWS "LEAST ABOUT"
TWAIN
(Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer) and Thomas HOOD (the Younger, 1835-1874, 'Tom Hood', Humorist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed "Mark Twain" to "The Editor"
saying that with his "permission I desire to say to those societies in London & other cities of Great Britain under whose auspices I have partly promised to lecture, that I am called home by a cable telegram. I shall spend, with my family, the greater part of next year here, & may be able to lecture ... during the autumn upon such scientific topics as I know least about & may consequently feel least trameled in dilating upon ...", 1 side 8vo., written upside down on a piece of paper, headed 52 Bond Street, crossed out, London, 5th November together with an autograph letter signed by Tom Hoodheaded "Mark Twain's Lecture" and sending the instruction "Please pass two & oblige ...", 1 side 8vo., Fun Office, Fleet Street headed paper, 16th December
Item Date:
1873
Stock No:
38122
£7500
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FAN SIGNED BY MARK TWAIN AND MANY OTHER IMPORTANT ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS
TWAIN
(Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer), Sarah BERNHARDT (1844-1923, Actress, 'The Divine Sarah'), Pietro MASCAGNI (1863-1945, Italian Composer), Gerhart HAUPTMANN (1862-1946, German Dramatist & Novelist, Nobel Prizewinner, 1912), Hermann SUDERMANN (1857-1928, German Novelist and Playwright), Ruggero LEONCAVALLO (1857-1919, Italian Composer), Bronislaw HUBERMAN (1882-1947, Polish Violinist), Ernest van DYCK (1861-1923, Belgian Wagnerian Tenor), Vasily VERESHCHAGIN (1842-1904, Russian Artist of the horrors of war, here in German spelling 'W. Werestchagin'), Franz von LENBACH (1836-1904, German Painter) & Felix DAHN (1834-1912, German Historian & Novelist)
Superb collection of signatures
(with a few others, including one partly with original smudge, the rest excellent), on a silk fanwith dark wood spokes and the owner's fine silver monogram 'H [von] G' under a heraldic coronet of five pearls, the fan was made in Vienna where most of the signatures were collected, a few at St Moritz, Gastein, Salzburg or Munich, they range from Sarah Bernhardt in 1893, Mark Twain in Vienna 1897 through to Felix Dahn in 1901, Gebrüder Rodeck, Vienna, circa
beautifully framed and glazed with museum glass
Item Date:
1893
Stock No:
28915
£3250
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TWAIN
(Mark, 1835-1910, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens, American Author of Tom Sawyer)
Autograph Letter in the third person.
saying that “Mr Clemens regrets very much that he feels obliged to decline the invitation of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of London to meet members of the Savage Club at dinner on the evening of June 29th, because it may be unavoidably necessary for him to sail on that day for home...”, 1 side 8vo., Tuxedo Park, New York headed paper, no date but
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
42766
£1250
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UNTERMEYER
(Louis, 1885-1977, American poet, Anthologist, Critic and Editor)
"Selected Poems and Parodies" signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper
"For Peter, with a bow to Vandenberg, Murphy, & St Patrick - including the Ruthven snakes!", 8vo., published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, with the date embellished a small flower 17th March
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
38645
£275
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UPCOTT
(William, 1779-1845, Librarian and Antiquary)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed Correspondent
saying that “to a much esteemed friend like yourself, I cannot but inscribe on the first page of this Album some frail memorial of the sentiments with which I regard him. Possibly on turning over its leaves it will remind you, when far removed from us, of those hours of pleasant converse which have now winged themselves away from us, and administer the most agreeable solace of exile and distance by reviewing the recollections which time and absence are too apt, if not to obliterate, at least to impair and diminish. This Book is destined, I conceive, to be the depository of various sentiments from various sources; but the sentiments I am striving to record, are unaffected and sincere, and flowing as directly from the Heart as any of the effusions whether in Poetry or Prose, which may be deemed worthy of a place in your Album. Accept then my warmest wishes for your happiness, mingled with heartfelt vows for your speedy return home (a word which contains within it every blessing that is permitted to us below) to enjoy the verdant landscapes and cool valleys of your native country, in exchange for the scorching gales and rocky soil of the Mauritius...”, with a note in another hand “My home is now ten thousand miles away’ Yet in my thoughts its every image fair Rises us keen, as I still lingered there, And turning me, could all I loved survey...”, 2 sides 8vo., London Institution, 12th June
Item Date:
1832
Stock No:
42154
£175
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