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Auction archive: Lot number 39

WEBSTER, NOAH Autograph letter signed.

Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 39

WEBSTER, NOAH Autograph letter signed.

Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

WEBSTER, NOAH Autograph letter signed. Single page on a folded sheet with integral address leaf retaining remains of seal, 13 lines, Hartford, dated August 2nd, 1791, addressed William Young bookseller, Philadelphia, with Young's notation of receipt (the same day). Small tear from seal to blank panel, usual folds. Framed with a portrait. With Charles Hamilton's old label on frame back . Noah Webster writes to his publisher. "Yours of a late date, accepting my offer of ten pounds a year for the Institute issue. The share of books coming to me this year may go for the first payment as you mention. I will send my bond for the other payments, by some private conveyance very soon. I have no claim to any alterations in the 2nd part. I will thank you to inform me by a single line what number of Spelling books you have sold in the last year, that I may provide accordingly..." The letter appears to relate to A plain and comprehensive grammar of the English language: being the second part of Mr. Webster's Grammatical institute , several editions of which were published by Young. C Property from the Estate of an Upper East Side Collector

Auction archive: Lot number 39
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Doyle New York - Auctioneers & Appraisers
East 87th Street 75
New York, NY 10128
United States
info@doyle.com
+1 (0)212 4272730
Beschreibung:

WEBSTER, NOAH Autograph letter signed. Single page on a folded sheet with integral address leaf retaining remains of seal, 13 lines, Hartford, dated August 2nd, 1791, addressed William Young bookseller, Philadelphia, with Young's notation of receipt (the same day). Small tear from seal to blank panel, usual folds. Framed with a portrait. With Charles Hamilton's old label on frame back . Noah Webster writes to his publisher. "Yours of a late date, accepting my offer of ten pounds a year for the Institute issue. The share of books coming to me this year may go for the first payment as you mention. I will send my bond for the other payments, by some private conveyance very soon. I have no claim to any alterations in the 2nd part. I will thank you to inform me by a single line what number of Spelling books you have sold in the last year, that I may provide accordingly..." The letter appears to relate to A plain and comprehensive grammar of the English language: being the second part of Mr. Webster's Grammatical institute , several editions of which were published by Young. C Property from the Estate of an Upper East Side Collector

Auction archive: Lot number 39
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Doyle New York - Auctioneers & Appraisers
East 87th Street 75
New York, NY 10128
United States
info@doyle.com
+1 (0)212 4272730
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