JOHN GODFREY SAXE - PRINTED CARD SIGNED IN INK 03/15/1869 - HFSID 14062
Price: $160.00
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
Ink signature on an autograph card, dated by him in 1869
Printed Card signed in ink: "John Godfrey Saxe/Albany, N.Y./Mar.
15, 1869", 5x2¾ autograph 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. One of his quips has endured, however: "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. Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
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