VAN WYCK BROOKS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 03/06/1943 - HFSID 177495
Sale Price $295.00
Reg. $360.00
VAN WYCK BROOKS
The famous literary historian pens a letter to a friend referring to an English author,
signed in iron gall ink
Autograph Letter Signed: “Van Wyck Brooks” in iron gall ink. 5x7¾. No place. Date: March 6,
1943. In part: “I don't think I could say which English author…All good wishes. Yours sincerely,
Van Wyck Brooks. Van Wyck Brooks” . Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) is best known as a
literary historian and biographer. His books include The Wine of the Puritans (1909),
America's Coming of Age (1915), The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920), The Pilgrimage of
Henry James (1925), New England Indian Summer: 1865-1915 (1940), On Literature Today
(1941), The World of Washington Irving (1944) and The Time of Melville and Whitman
(1947). His The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, won the Pulitzer Prize in History
(1936). Brooks was a longtime resident of Bridgewater, Connecticut, which dedicated a
wing in the city library to him. Brooks was a longtime resident of Bridgewater, Connecticut,
which dedicated a wing in the city library to him. Toned. Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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