Search Results: Bret Harte from Charles Agvent

[London], 29 November 1899. Letter. Faint fold from mailing; paper browned. Still Near Fine. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on Harte's 74, Lancaster Gate, W. stationery (4-1/2" x 6-3/8") SIGNED "Bret Harte" to "My dear Hollingshead." In full: "Certainly! I shall be pleased if you will add my name to your committee. I am sorry you had trouble to find my new address. But I trust you will find no other change -- barring age -- in Yours always."

[London], n.d. [1902]. Letter. Faint fold from mailing; some staining. Still Near Fine. Two-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on Harte's 109, Lancaster Gate, W. stationery (8-7/8" x 9-1/8"), not signed but completely in Harte's hand, consisting of 6 four-line stanzas on two integral pages. Titled "Scotch Lines to A. S. B./From an Unintelligent Foreigner," the poem is written in a humorous attempt in Scottish dialect and is Harte's reply to some jesting stanzas in the vernacular written by Harte's friend and frequent correspondent, British artist Alexander Stuart Boyd. A sampling: "We've heard na mon say 'gowd' for 'gold,'/And yet wi all our tongues up-curled,/We -- like the British drum-beat-rolled/Our 'Rs' round half the speaking worrrld./How like true Scots we didna care...." This poem was first published in HARPER'S MONTHLY in October 1902 and in book form in T. Edgar Pemberton's 1903 THE LIFE OF BRET HARTE where he states, "Once more, as many of his stories show, he took his tone from his surroundings,… Read More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner label and signature of J. D. Cary dated Nov. '98 on the front pastedown. About Fine. Brick cloth. BAL 7390: an early copy.