11-10-200111-10-2001
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2109Boston
November 10, 2001 10:00 AMCalender
35

GREELEY

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$230$200
Auction: Sale #2109 - 2109Location: BostonDate / Time: November 10, 2001 10:00AM

Description:

GREELEY, HORACE (1811-1872) Autograph Letter Signed, New York, Dec. 11, 1844, one page, to A.M. Ide, Jr., accepting a verse for publication in the New York Tribune and offering advice... "You are in danger of writing too fast and too much. Six verses a month is as much as you ought to allow yourself...Write little and think much, and think least of all of what you may get by writing...Never allow Poetry to be to you a means of subsistence, or of gain."
Estimate $300-400

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Autograph Letter Signed, A.M. Ide , Jr., New York Tribune