GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 07/21/1887 - HFSID 262852
Price: $460.00
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
Autograph letter signed in 1887, ordering a book
Autograph Letter signed: "George Cary Eggleston", 1 page, 5½x8. New
York, 1887 July 21. On letterhead of the Editorial Rooms, The Commercial
Advertiser, to Messrs. Leggatt Bros., in full: "Please send me by
bearer one copy of Warner's 'Bad-deck & that Sort of Thing.' The boy has
money with which to pay the bill. Yours truly". Although born in Indiana to
an anti-slavery family, George Cary Eggleston (1839-1911) moved back to live
with his uncle in Virginia and embraced that state's values, including slavery.
He enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861. His most famous book, originally
serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and later published as A Rebel's
Recollections (1875), is an entertaining chronicle of his experiences in the
war and also a defense of the "Lost Cause." Eggleston became a New York
journalist while writing novels and histories on the side. His equally well
known brother Edward Eggleston, wrote histories and fiction championing the
contrasting values of his native Indiana (as in A Hoosier Schoolteacher).
The book Eggleston requests here, an account of travels in Nova Scotia by
Charles Dudley Warner, was first published in 1874. Horizontal and vertical fold
creases. Minor ink transfer at lower section. Lightly soiled and creased.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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