GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 12/17/1858 - HFSID 1308
Price: $280.00
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Writes his kind regards to "an unknown friend" on December 17,
1858
Autograph Note signed: "To an unknown friend with/the kind regards
of/George William Curtis. -/Elmira 17 December 1858.", 1p, 6½x2½. Curtis
(1824-1892) was educated at Brook Farm and then moved to Concord,
Massachusetts, where he learned from such American literary luminaries as
Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne. Lead editorial writer (1857) and then editor
of "Harper's Weekly" (1863), Curtis wrote in favor of emanipation, equal
rights for African-Americans, native Americans and women, civil service reform,
public education and environmental conservation. A life-long Republican,
he was a leader of the reform-minded "Mugwumps" who refused to support the
Party's nominee of 1884, James Blaine, helping to elect the first Democratic
President since the Civil War, Grover Cleveland. Curtis also wrote travelogues,
poetry and one novel, Trumps (1862). Slightly irregular left edge,
browned at right edge. Otherwise, fine condition.
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