JOHN BURROUGHS - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 05/08/1893 - HFSID 154649
Price: $180.00
JOHN BURROUGHS
The naturalist pens a sentiment on an album leaf.
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Compliments of/John Burroughs/May 8,
1893", 4x3¼ album leaf. Born on his family's farm in Roxbury, New York on
April 3, 1837, Burroughs, who died on a train returning from California (March
29, 1921), would be buried there on April 3, 1921, on what would have been his
84th birthday. American naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921) was a
prolific nature writer, penning over 243 essays on his association with birds,
resulting in his nickname, "John o' Birds". A friend of Walt Whitman,
Burroughs also wrote Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867),
the first Whitman biography. In all, he penned 441 essays that were
collected in 23 volumes. These works include Birds and Poets (1877),
Literary Values (1902), Ways of Nature (1905) and Camping and
Tramping with Roosevelt (1907). Shaded. Corner impressions from being held
in album. Pinhead-size stain at blank area. Overall, fine
condition.
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