JOHN BURROUGHS - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 12/09/1908 - HFSID 112362
Price: $180.00
JOHN BURROUGHS
The nature writer extends season's greetings.
Autograph Sentiment signed: "The Compliments of the/Season/John
Burroughs/Dec 9. 1908." 4¼x2¾ card. 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
at perimeter, touching the "hs" of Burroughs, 2 letters of writing and the date.
Mounting remnants at upper and lower blank corners. Overall, fine
condition.
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