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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Autograph letter signed ("H B Stowe") to a Dr. Stone, Woodside Cottage, n.d. [early 1851?]. One page, 8vo; Cabinet portrait photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), n.d., mounted on card, edges gilt, with imprint of Hastings, Newport, R.I., a fine bust portrait, signed on mount beneath the photograph; Cabinet photograph of Stowe's Florida home, n.d., mounted on card, with imprint of Rodgers, Hartford, Conn., showing Stowe and her husband seated on the lawn of the cottage, with identifying inscription, dated 1914, on verso.
ON KEEPING HER NOVEL, "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN," SECRET
An intriguing letter, enjoining her correspondent to secrecy regarding her novel. "I have this evening received your letter. I hope to see you in Boston next week. Meanwhile let me beg of you to make no public mention if you have not, of the Uncle Tom project till I have seen you. Don't mention it at any rate till then...."
Stowe commenced writing her Uncle Tom's Cabin in February 1851; it was first serialized in a Washington paper, The National Era, from 5 June 1851 to 1 April 1852, then published in book form in March 1852. Its success, and its influence, are proverbial.
Provenance:
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (sale, Christie's, 6 February 1981, lot 308). (3)
ON KEEPING HER NOVEL, "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN," SECRET
An intriguing letter, enjoining her correspondent to secrecy regarding her novel. "I have this evening received your letter. I hope to see you in Boston next week. Meanwhile let me beg of you to make no public mention if you have not, of the Uncle Tom project till I have seen you. Don't mention it at any rate till then...."
Stowe commenced writing her Uncle Tom's Cabin in February 1851; it was first serialized in a Washington paper, The National Era, from 5 June 1851 to 1 April 1852, then published in book form in March 1852. Its success, and its influence, are proverbial.
Provenance:
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (sale, Christie's, 6 February 1981, lot 308). (3)
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