GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 79500
Price: $200.00
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Handwritten sentiment signed "with all good wishes" by Curtis
Autograph sentiment signed "with all good wishes/Truly Yours/George
William Curtis.-/Henry R. [illegible]/Rutland". Curtis
(1824-1892, born in Providence, Rhode Island) 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 emancipation; 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). Lightly toned and creased. Top edge is irregular
and has a small tear. Cut through top of "sh" in "wishes". Otherwise in fine
condition.
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