Bacheller, Irving ALS / Autograph Letter Signed, to Richard Lloyd Jones / tipped in to copy of D'ri and I

Winter Park, FL: Self-published, 1940. Soft cover. Fine. Winter Park, FL: full-page autograph letter signed (ALS) by Irving Bacheller, written to his friend Richard Lloyd Jones, a conservative journalist and long-time editor of the Tulsa (OK) Tribune (Bacheller was himself a journalist as well as a novelist, and was the founder of the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States), and dated February 3rd, 1940. See scan: 8" x 6" letterhead stationery bearing Bacheller's address in Winter Park, Florida; the stationery is four-fold, but is written on only on the first of four sides. The condition of the letter is Fine, though of course it was folded for mailing, and is now tipped in to Jones' copy of one of Bacheller's most popular novels, "D'ri and I", which bears Jones' (presumed ownership) signature. Its condition is otherwise fine. The book is itself an unremarkable Grosset copy, and is ex-lib from the Tulsa Public Library, though in stout and sturdy condition. The letter shows close friendship and anticipated local arrival of Jones; it closes with a limerick of imperfect meter but good humor, on a topic - Mormon polygamy - which was presumably, in some way, of significance to either the writer or the recipient. The Bacheller letter has been professionally examined and authenticated; Jones' signature has not, through lack of exemplars, but it is an unlikely one to have been forged. l46n