DONALD GRANT MITCHELL - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 10/14/1897 - HFSID 222155
Sale Price $165.00
Reg. $200.00
DONALD GRANT MITCHELL
The American author of Reveries of a Bachelor signs his name
in black ink
Autograph sentiment signed: "Yours truly/ Don G. Mitchell" in
black ink. 3½x1½ clipping. Edgewood, Connecticut. October 14, 1897. Donald
Grant Mitchell (1822-1908), also known by his penname Ik Marvel, was the
grandson of Revolutionary War-Era politician Stephen Mix Mitchell, who
originally attended Yale College and studied law and even was a member of the
Skull and Bones society, before ultimately deciding to study literature. After a
brief stint as a U.S. consul in Venice, Italy (1853-1854), Mitchell wrote his
most well-known work, Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart
(1850) (which was one of Emily Dickinson's favorite books), which explores the
dream-like lives Americans were living in at the time. His other works
include Dream Life, a Fable of the Seasons (1851), My Farm
of Edgewood (1863), About Old Story Tellers(1877), and
American Lands and Letters(1897). Irregularly cut. Torn in left
margin. Toned. Corners rounded. Creased throughout. Stains throughout.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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