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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Caroline Cheesbro
by Chesebro, Caroline
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- Signed
- Condition
- The letter is lightly creased, else near fine; neatly and tastefully mounted on quarto sheet of laid paper, within single ink ru
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About This Item
Canandaigua, New York, 1862. 1 page. 12mo. The letter is lightly creased, else near fine; neatly and tastefully mounted on quarto sheet of laid paper, within single ink rule. 1 page. 12mo. "I should be glad now and then to furnish a short story for children
if you deem it desirable..."-- CAROLINE CHESEBRO. Caroline Chesebro [Chesebrough] (1825-1873), born in Canandaigua, New York, was a children's novelist, short-story writer and teacher. Her first book, 'DreamLand by Daylight' was published in 1852; her fourteenth and final work was 'The Foe in the Household,' published in 1871 [Blain, 'Feminist Companion to Literature in English,' p. 201].
The letter, concerning a submission of a short story for children to the New York Observer, begins, "Enclosed I send a sketch for your Juvenile Department... [the "enclosed sketch" is not present with this letter]. Please let me know what it may be worth to you. I should be glad now and then to furnish a short story for children if you deem it desirable. Yours [signed] Caroline Chesbro." Addressed on verso, in Caroline Chesebro's ink holograph: "Mr. Prince [?]/ Ed. N.Y. Observer." The letter is lightly creased, else near fine; neatly and tastefully mounted on quarto sheet of laid paper, within single ink rule.
if you deem it desirable..."-- CAROLINE CHESEBRO. Caroline Chesebro [Chesebrough] (1825-1873), born in Canandaigua, New York, was a children's novelist, short-story writer and teacher. Her first book, 'DreamLand by Daylight' was published in 1852; her fourteenth and final work was 'The Foe in the Household,' published in 1871 [Blain, 'Feminist Companion to Literature in English,' p. 201].
The letter, concerning a submission of a short story for children to the New York Observer, begins, "Enclosed I send a sketch for your Juvenile Department... [the "enclosed sketch" is not present with this letter]. Please let me know what it may be worth to you. I should be glad now and then to furnish a short story for children if you deem it desirable. Yours [signed] Caroline Chesbro." Addressed on verso, in Caroline Chesebro's ink holograph: "Mr. Prince [?]/ Ed. N.Y. Observer." The letter is lightly creased, else near fine; neatly and tastefully mounted on quarto sheet of laid paper, within single ink rule.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 346045
- Title
- AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Caroline Cheesbro
- Author
- Chesebro, Caroline
- Format/Binding
- 1 page. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - The letter is lightly creased, else near fine; neatly and tastefully mounted on quarto sheet of laid paper, within single ink ru
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Canandaigua, New York
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- Children's Books | Women
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Social Thought;
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