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Autograph document signed with original artwork by [DERBY, George Horatio]
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$1,250.00
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Book desription: Vancouver, WA, 1855. One page document in the hand of Derby, the celebrated humorist and author of 'Phoenixiana'. 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches, done in brown/black ink. Very good. The document reads as follows: 'Columbia Barracks, Vancouver/October 29th, 1855/This mar certify, that for the sum of two/hundred and fifty dollars to me paid, I have/this day sold to Lieut. G.H. Derby [autograph], a house/recently erected by me, situated, fronting on the/Parade ground, on the left of the building now/occupied as a band barracks. This house was/before this date my own private property, and was/erected on the reserve with the express permission of/the Commanding Officer of the post./[New paragraph] In witness hereof, I have hereunto affixed my/hand and seal, this 29 October 1855./Witnessed by/[in a different hand] H.D. Wallin/Capt. 4th Inf. [drawing of a seal, the animal, by Derby, side view, underneath which is printed 'Seal"./[Second signature, not by Derby, and front view of a seal, the animal, with water and a boat in the background, presumable by Derby] On the verso of the sheet. which is folded in thirds, is a notation in Derby's hand; 'Capt. H.D. Wallin/Deed for house at/Vancouver/October 29, 1855'. This document was written in the same year that Phoenixiana, a selection of Derby's sketches and burlesques which had previously appeared in periodicals, was published. Derby's writings represent one of the earliest developments of the so-called American, or Western, style of humor. His influence can be seen in many subsequent writers, most noticeable Mark Twain Accompanied by the first published view of Fort Vancouver plate XLIV ('Fort Vancouver, W.T.), a tinted lithograph, from the Narrative and Final Report of Explorations for a Route for a pacific Railroad Near the 47th Parallels from St. Paul's to Puget Sound (1860).
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