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WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/16/1950 - HFSID 344480

The poet and expert on Honoré de Balzac signs this handwritten letter on a post card to a member of the Balzac Society of America who has won a prize Autograph letter signed: "Royce" in black ink. 5½x3½. December 16, 1950.

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WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE
The poet and expert on Honoré de Balzac signs this handwritten letter on a post card to a member of the Balzac Society of America who has won a prize
Autograph letter signed: "Royce" in black ink. 5½x3½. December 16, 1950. Written on personal cardstock to "Dear Brother in Balzac", in full: "Heartiest congratulations to you on winning the prize. No one deserves it more. I shall mention it in the next Bulletin, and also your Balzac articles which you are going to send me. With all the greetings of the season, and for the glory of Balzac, I am, Fraternally yours-". William Hobart Royce (1878-1963) was an American writer and bookseller who was an expert on French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Royce published poetry under his given name as well as his pen-name, Willie Penmore. In 1917 Royce met Gabriel Wells and joined his bookselling firm where he stayed for over 30 years. The shop became a center for the sale of all types of "Balzaciana". Royce lived his life in emulation of Balzac and was the founder (1940) and president of the Balzac Society of America. In 1935, he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor and was made an honorary citizen of Issoudun, where Balzac's La Rabouilleuse was set. Some of Royce's notable works include "Remember Pearl Harbor!", "The Bookman's Lament", and "Balzac Was Right, A Sonnet Sequence". Toned. Corners rounded. Ink slightly smeared in places. Ink note (unknown hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.

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