WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/16/1950 - HFSID 344480
Price: $220.00
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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