JOHN GODFREY SAXE - AUTOGRAPH 05/14/1873 - HFSID 112203
Price: $160.00
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
His 1873 signature on a small card
Signature: "John G. Saxe/New York/May 14, '73", 3¼x2 card. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) practiced law in
Vermont, served one term as the state's Attorney General (1856) and ran twice
unsuccessfully for Governor (1859 and 1860). However, he was bored by the
law and preferred writing poems. His first volume, titled simply
Poems (1849), went through 10 printings and competed in sales with
Hawthorne and Tennyson. His early poems were mostly satires ("The Briefless
Barrister"), but his serious poems ("I'm Growing Old", "The Old Chapel Bell")
are better remembered today. He was also a popular public speaker. One of his
quips has endured: "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in
proportion as we know how they are made." As a "Douglas Democrat," Saxe was
soundly beaten in his race for Governor of Republican Vermont, and moved to New
York, living the rest of his life in Albany. Foxed and stained. Adhesive and
paper residue on verso. Corners worn.
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