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n.p., 1892. 1 vols. Stowe image 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches, 14 x 11 inches overall. Stowe engraving with almost imperceptible tear without loss, others fine. Kruell, Gustav. 1 vols. Stowe image 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches, 14 x 11 inches overall. Harriet Beecher Stowe Engraving with Artist's Autograph Letter, signed. Gustav Kruell (1843-1907) was born in Germany and established himself as an engraver in Stuttgart. He came to the US in 1873, and quickly obtained commissions from the leading illustrated periodicals. He fell under the artistic influence of the famed engraver W.J. Linton, with the result that his portraits took on a clarity and liveliness uncommon in his day. His most famous work is probably the Lincoln of 1891; the following year he produced the superb Stowe portrait offered here (Stowe died in 1896). His Autograph Letter, signed, written from East Orange, NJ to J.R. Mitchel conveying the proof, reads, "Your favor enclosing check if $15.00 for Portrait of Beecher Stowe came to me today--I send… Read More

Three pages. Typed identification at head of first page, mounting remants on verso of second leaf. Very good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe arranges a visit to Hawthorne's Concord home. Stowe wrote this letter the year before Nathaniel Hawthorne's death. She tells Hawthorne's wife Sophia,
"Mr. Stowe & I have long desired to renew our acquaintance with you, but Concord is rather too far off for a card-case call & this leads me to say that on Sunday next we shall pass your house on our way to a friends' with whom we pass Sunday, & we propose to ourselves then the pleasure of calling & seeing you & Mr. Hawthorne & your family once more."
She jokingly adds about the proposed early summer visit, "Only, should there chance to be a driving snow storm we should perhaps not undertake the visit — & of course must lose the call. Your whole region is to me terra incognita known only in your husband's descriptions, so I ardently hope the sun may shine & the skies prove propitious. In such a case we hope to look in upon… Read More