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Letter. Near Fine. A fine archive of 4 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED in Beston's neat hand consisting of 10 pages and 2 hand-addressed and SIGNED envelopes along with a small photograph of Beston and his wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, annotated in another hand on the rear. Three of the letters are addressed to Wilmot Brewer and one to Brookes More, both of Hingham, Massachusetts, where Beston lived. Brewer edited a collection of poems by More and wrote a brief biography of him. In the letter to More, Beston thanks him for sending his translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. In a letter to Brewer he thanks him for his book on More: "In days so confused and really terrible as these, it is sustaining to the spirit to read of one who has dedicated his life to beauty and the works of the muses." In another letter to Brewer dated 28 December 1941 Beston mentions World War II and thanks him for his "most readable study of the place and influence of the METAMORPHOSES." In the longest letter Beston comments on a book… Read More

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to spine tips; front free endpaper detached. Near Fine. Green cloth, lettered in gilt; 143 pages. Illustrated with a map of Dorchester and a folding facsimile of the first issue of Boston's first newspaper.