PAUL B. DU CHAILLU - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 06/14/1857 - HFSID 252872
Price: $550.00
PAUL B. DU CHAILLU
DuChaillu responds to a request with a broad travel schedule!
Autograph Letter Signed: "Yours truly/P.B Du Chaillu", 1p,
4½x7. New York, 1857 June 14. To Hiram Rich, Esqr. Begins:
"Dear Sir". In full: "Your note of June 3d has just come by my
hands. In answer I will state that I am going to Europe next month. On my return
in September I will be happy to communicate with you on the subject of your
note." Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, the son of a French trader, had spent his
youth in Gabon, French Equatorial Africa. After immigrating to the U.S., he
led an exploring expedition to central Africa (1855-1859),
bringing back many previously unknown birds and animals, including the first
gorillas seen in America. On his second expedition (1863-1865), he verified
rumors about pygmy tribes living in the forests of central Africa. Among
his books are Stories of the Gorilla Country (1868), Lost in the
Jungle (1869) and The Country of the Dwarfs (1871). Du Chaillu, whose
date of birth is given as 1831 and 1835 in different sources, died in 1903. Ink
notes (unknown hand, but likely Rich's) regarding follow-up letters at lower
margin. Docketed on verso of integral leaf. Lightly creased, vertical fold
touches the "B" in signature. Lightly soiled at right margin. Tape remnants at
blank area of integral leaf at mid-vertical fold. Overall, fine condition.
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