autograph letter signed de fields (10 resultados)

1p., 12mo. Bifolium, addressed on second leaf to 'Rd. Wilson Esqr | Lincolns Inn Fields'. In good condition, with light signs of age and wear. The letter begins: 'My dear Sir | I have so much responsibility on my shoulders in the new farce that I really dare not venture into society on those days on which I perform in it.' If he had a holiday he would accept Wilson's 'polite invitation', 'but so situated I am sorry to say it is impossible'. Laid down beneath the address on the second leaf is a cutting of an engraved cartoon titled 'A Great Friend in a Little House', captioned 'The greatest actor that ever appeared on any stage - saving Mathews, Yates, and Reeves', and showing an elephant and the three actors. According to the History of Parliament, Wilson was 'one of the Whig theatrical circle, Sheridan (whom he introduced to William Stone 'the traitor') and Joseph Richardson being friends of his'.

Dated Manchester-By-the-Sea, Oct. 2, 1894. To a Mr. Hopkins: "Unhappily, I can tell you nothing of the manuscript of "Snow-Bound". Annie Fields was the wife of publisher James T. Fields. Ticknor and Fields first published John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snow-Bound" in 1866. One sheet folded, one page, then folded for mailing. A Fine letter.

One page, 12mo, bifolium, minor chips, good condition. Text: "I should at this time address a letter to Miss Thackeray 'care of' Mr George Smith, Publisher of the Cornhill Magazine, London.".

Dated 148 Charles Street, April 16, 1878. To Rev. A.P. (Alfred Porter) Putnam, Unitarian minister in Brooklyn, looking forward to his scheduled May 7 lecture to the Long Island Historical Society, and offering "The Literary and Artistic Society in London, as I Saw It, Thirty Years Ago" or, "if they prefer it, A brief paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne". One sheet, one page, in Fine condition.

Dated March 23, 1872. To Mr. Stone: "If I were the editor of the Atlantic Monthly I wd. print your paper, but as I am not, having left the chair a year ago. I will hand your interesting article to Mr. Howells.". William Dean Howells was editor, but Fields remained the publisher. One page, folded as though for maiiling. Mounting stains on the obverse, bleeding through at one edge. In Very Good condition.

Dated Thursday, Sept. 28th, no year, but the paper bears an 1840 watermark. September 28 fell on a Thursday in 1843. No greeting, the letter in full: "If Miss Richardson has a letter of Jas. Munroe to spare I shall be very, very glad to get it & will exchange for it some good one of equal value. I want it more than almost another just now." One sheet folded to make 4 pp., one is used. Then, folded as though for mailing. A Fine letter.

Dated Thursday, Sept. 28th, no year, but the paper bears an 1840 watermark. September 28 fell on a Thursday in 1843. No greeting, the letter in full: "If Miss Richardson has a letter of Jas. Munroe to spare I shall be very, very glad to get it & will exchange for it some good one of equal value. I want it more than almost another just now." One sheet folded to make 4 pp., one is used. Then, folded as though for mailing. A Fine letter.

2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Corner of second leaf cut away on opening of letter, and still adhering to wafer. Folded twice. Addressed to 'W. Upcott, Esq.' Upcott has been 'so kind as to invite Mr Fields and me to spend an evening with you in going over some of your Literary treasures', and Rodd has 'an indistinct idea of some particular evening being named' by Upcott. In the hope that the present evening was not intended, he asks Upcott to send word of which evening will suit his convenience. In a long postscript Rodd expresses the hope that - should the present evening have been intended for the meeting - Upcott will excuse Rodd's forgetfulness, 'and impute it to the right cause the [having?] of one's thoughts in a Sale-room, added to which I had been travelling all the previous night'. Rodd was highly regarded for his knowledge and fair dealing. He issued several catalogues of Americana. 'Mr Field [sic]' was presumably James Thomas Fields (1817-1881) of the celebrated Boston firm Ticknor and Fields, who started in the trade at the age of fourteen, and whose name was 'Field' until later in life.

Written in red ink on 11-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. "Seventy's Press" paper concerning the [John] Logan poem that Bly had written for Voyages. He gives Claire permission to reprint it and notes in part: "I was with John when I wrote it, and actually wrote it because he was working all the time on his Big Sur poem and so I felt I should be doing something! It was never in a magazine but under a slightly different title and slightly different 4th line it was a broadside by Unicorn Press for $2.00. " Bly (born in 1926) won the National Book Award for his The Light Around the Body (1968).

2 pages, 4to, on recto and verso, in fine condition, creased at folds, with original holograph envelope addressed by Fields. A LENGTHY LETTER FROM A BITTER W. C. FIELDS, a lengthy outpouring to his estranged mistress: "I can't write you sensible letters because you don't even take time to read them you can't fool anyone, least of all me. You listen to some bums who tell you you are going to knock them in the aisles in Berlin, Paris, Moscow you spend all your money, run off to N.Y. and when your poke is empty, you appeal to me for a little help and advice which you never take. I feel like such a God damned fool for offering advice or even writing you".