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Title: Collection of some 165 autographed items, most by late 19th-early 20th century American authors, with a few illustrators and actors Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: c.1898-1899 Description: About 115 of the letters, notes and other items are tipped to leaves of an album; the remainder are loose. Album is 28x21.5 cm (11x8½"), half leather & cloth, spine strip lacking. Astonishing autograph collection assembled by one Leonie A. Millard of Troy, New York - she evidently wrote relentlessly to authors of the day, many of them women, and they responded in kind. So while some are simple signatures, the great majority are cards or letters, sometimes sentiments or greetings, others letters of some detail. Among the respondents are John Kendrick Bangs, Edward E. Hale, Lotta Crabtree, John Burroughs, Charles F. Lummis, Kate Sanborn, Anthony Hope Hopkins, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Thomas Nelson Page, A.B. Frost, Owen Wister, Mabel Osgood Wright, Julia Ward Howe, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Custer, Ina Coolbrith, and others. Millard would place small portraits next to many of the autographs, clipped from magazines perhaps, and there are a number of loose portraits present, for future use. The collection includes, but is not limited to: John Kendrick Bangs Edward E. Hale Edward Eggleston Lotta Crabtree Maude Adams May Irwin [Mrs.] Leslie Carter [stage name of Caroline Louise Dudley] Moses Coit Tyler John Burroughs Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Bailey Aldrich Lee Meriwether (the author, not the actress) Kate Douglas Wiggin (two) Martha Finley Laurel Richards Charles F. Lummis Cherry Croft Octave Thanet Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman] Louis Imogen Guiney Robert J. Burdett Florence Earle Coates Robert J. Burdette Kate Sanborn Clara Louise Burnham Anthony Hope Hopkins Mary J. Holmes Ella Wheeler Wilcox (two, one without the Wilcox) Marion Harland [penname of Mary Virginia Terhune] (two) Sara O[rme] Jewett Maggie Mitchell Thomas Nelson Page George Washington Cable William Dean Howells F. Marion Crawford Frank R. Stockton Louise Chandler Moulton Richard Henry Savage Maria Louis Pool Kirk Munroe John Townsend Trowbridge Mary A. Livermore A.B. Frost Opie Read Owen Wister Mabel Osgood Wright Charles Eliot Norton Julia Ward Howe Will Hicok Lowe LOOSE Howard Chandler Christie Paul Lawrence Dunbar Lew Wallace Russell Sage Jeremiah Curtain Margaret E. Sangster Frances Hodgson Burnett Will M. Clemens Elbert Hubbard Israel Zangwill Charles Dudley Warner Irving Bachellor Elizabeth B. Custer (two) Helena Modjeska Joaquin Miller Ina Coolbrith Hamlin Garland Howard Pyle Charles King Richard Henry Stoddard Lot Amendments Condition: Autographs generally in very good to fine condition. Item number: 271753