LETTER: Autograph letter signed to "My dear sir".
FIELDS, Annie (1834-1915). Autograph Letter Signed, 1p, 6'2" X 842", Boston, MA, 1911 February 28. Addressed to "My dear Sir.” Boldly penned on high quality stock in deep blue ink. Near fine.
Legendary literary lady keeps literary treasures – "nothing for sale at any price”.
This well-known Boston society matron and literary hostess, author and social welfare worker was the wife of editor/publisher James T. Fields of "Ticknor & Fields" fame; as such she befriended many of the literary elite of her day, playing hostess to the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier and many others.
Nice content to an admirer of the literary figures with whom Fields associated, reading in part: "I am sending you with this note two more autographs of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and I shall be glad to have you retain anything in my package.... You speak of other manuscripts in my collection! It is quite true they are here but there is nothing for sale at any price...."
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