DONALD GRANT MITCHELL - PRINTED CARD SIGNED IN INK 03/25/1864 - HFSID 14077
Price: $200.00
DONALD GRANT MITCHELL
The nineteenth-century author of Reveries of a Bachelor signs
his name in black ink
Printed card signed in ink: "Don G. Mitchell" in black ink.
5x2¾ printed card. March 25, 1864. 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). Edges irregularly cut. Toned. Light surface creases.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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