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[HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN]. A group of six autograph letters signed to Howells and one apparently to his daughter Winifred: ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. ALS, Boston, 22 October 1887, 2 pages, 8vo, on letterhead of The Atlantic Monthly (he succeeded Howells as editor), regarding the just-published Modern Italian Poets: Essays and Versions, edited by Howells: "I always knew that those Italian poet-papers were delightful, but I did not know how valuable they were until I got them all together in that beautiful book with the horrid wood-cuts. I want an Italian scholar to review the volume. I tried to get [Charles Eliot] Norton -- the man of men -- to do it; but he was engaged on belated work..."--CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON. ALS, Northampton, Mass., 13 February 1886, one page, 8vo: "declining the honor of dining with the Tavern Club...my work on the [lecture] platform on Monday and Tuesday is new and untried, calls for more study than I have been able to give it..."--HALE, EDWARD EVERETT. ALS, Ithaca, N.Y., 28 March 1887, 3 pages, 8vo & 4to, entirely on the spiritual aspects of Leo Tolstoy's writings (which he has been reading and which has profoundly influenced him)--JAMES, HENRY, Senior. ALS to "My dear friend" apparently Winifred Howells ("my dear Miss H." in the closing), "20 Quincy St., Cambridge, Mass.," 6 June n.y. [Henry James, Sr., died in December 1882], 2 pages, 8vo & 4to, mainly regarding a previous letter he had written her "about marriage"--WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY. ALS, Hartford, 13 May 1887, one page, 8vo: "...I expect to be in Cambridge, at Mr. Houghton's [the publisher], or Mrs. Houghton's rather, to read something for the benefit of the Society for the Propagation of Indians. I do not know whether I will reach Boston time enough to see you Tuesday..."--STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. ALS, New York, 22 July 1887, 2 pages, 8vo, requesting a "decent and characteristic photograph" of Howells in order to make a steel-engraved portrait of him for the Library of American Literature, which is in preparation (published 1888-90 in 11 vols.)--BARRETT, WILSON. ALS, Philadelphia, 29 November 1886, 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, on a business matter; together 7 letters, 8vo & 4to, nearly all with remnants of mounting on versos. (7)

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[HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN]. A group of six autograph letters signed to Howells and one apparently to his daughter Winifred: ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. ALS, Boston, 22 October 1887, 2 pages, 8vo, on letterhead of The Atlantic Monthly (he succeeded Howells as editor), regarding the just-published Modern Italian Poets: Essays and Versions, edited by Howells: "I always knew that those Italian poet-papers were delightful, but I did not know how valuable they were until I got them all together in that beautiful book with the horrid wood-cuts. I want an Italian scholar to review the volume. I tried to get [Charles Eliot] Norton -- the man of men -- to do it; but he was engaged on belated work..."--CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON. ALS, Northampton, Mass., 13 February 1886, one page, 8vo: "declining the honor of dining with the Tavern Club...my work on the [lecture] platform on Monday and Tuesday is new and untried, calls for more study than I have been able to give it..."--HALE, EDWARD EVERETT. ALS, Ithaca, N.Y., 28 March 1887, 3 pages, 8vo & 4to, entirely on the spiritual aspects of Leo Tolstoy's writings (which he has been reading and which has profoundly influenced him)--JAMES, HENRY, Senior. ALS to "My dear friend" apparently Winifred Howells ("my dear Miss H." in the closing), "20 Quincy St., Cambridge, Mass.," 6 June n.y. [Henry James, Sr., died in December 1882], 2 pages, 8vo & 4to, mainly regarding a previous letter he had written her "about marriage"--WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY. ALS, Hartford, 13 May 1887, one page, 8vo: "...I expect to be in Cambridge, at Mr. Houghton's [the publisher], or Mrs. Houghton's rather, to read something for the benefit of the Society for the Propagation of Indians. I do not know whether I will reach Boston time enough to see you Tuesday..."--STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. ALS, New York, 22 July 1887, 2 pages, 8vo, requesting a "decent and characteristic photograph" of Howells in order to make a steel-engraved portrait of him for the Library of American Literature, which is in preparation (published 1888-90 in 11 vols.)--BARRETT, WILSON. ALS, Philadelphia, 29 November 1886, 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, on a business matter; together 7 letters, 8vo & 4to, nearly all with remnants of mounting on versos. (7)