COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph letter signed ("J. Fenimore Cooper") to "Dear Sir," Cooperstown, March 23 [18]50. One page, 8vo, brown ink on pale blue bond; margins trimmed closely by previous owner (impinging on a few letters on left margin of last line of letter, text elsewise not affected); folded horizontally and vertically; previously pasted onto plain autograph backing page, which adheres to upper right corner of blank verso; the entire trimmed letter is affixed, at the upper left hand corner, to a plain 8½ x 14in. sheet of heavy bond. Cooper prods his publisher, [George Putnam?], about the printing of his upcoming work, The Ways of the Hour , the first edition of which appeared during the second week of April 1850 according to BAL (3935), or roughly three weeks after this letter: "...the book will not be likely to produce competition, until an edition is sold...it ought to be very handsomely printed, as it is addressed altogether to the tasteful and refined!..."
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Autograph letter signed ("J. Fenimore Cooper") to "Dear Sir," Cooperstown, March 23 [18]50. One page, 8vo, brown ink on pale blue bond; margins trimmed closely by previous owner (impinging on a few letters on left margin of last line of letter, text elsewise not affected); folded horizontally and vertically; previously pasted onto plain autograph backing page, which adheres to upper right corner of blank verso; the entire trimmed letter is affixed, at the upper left hand corner, to a plain 8½ x 14in. sheet of heavy bond. Cooper prods his publisher, [George Putnam?], about the printing of his upcoming work, The Ways of the Hour , the first edition of which appeared during the second week of April 1850 according to BAL (3935), or roughly three weeks after this letter: "...the book will not be likely to produce competition, until an edition is sold...it ought to be very handsomely printed, as it is addressed altogether to the tasteful and refined!..."
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