[AMERICAN AUTHORS]. HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS. Typescript signed of his long essay on Anatole France, n.p., n.d., 24 pages, mostly 4to, double-spaced, some light soiling, a working draft with very extensive holograph revisions in ink, "...To call France a skeptic is to state a commonplace...The spiritual step-son of Renan, a partial inheritor of his gifts of irony and pity, and a continuator of the elder master's diverse and undulating style, France displays affinities to Heine, Aristophanes, Charles Lamb, Epicurus, Sterne and Voltaire..." -- DUNNE, FINLEY PETER. Autograph manuscript of his humorous sketch "Mr. Dooley on the Convention," n.p., n.d. [1900], 14 pages, 4to, nearly all in pencil, first page a little soiled, a working draft with numerous holograph revisions, Mr. Dooley expatiates in his inimitable manner on "Tiddy Rosenfelt" and the Republican Convention of 1900, which renominated President McKinley, with Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York as his running mate. Together 2 items. (2)