Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Robinson Jeffers") and Inscribed, 1 p, 4to, Tor House, Carmel, California, September 2, 1942, being a fair copy of the poem "Autumn Evening," folding creases, fine. Jeffers copies one of his better known poems for a collector, adding below, "Copied for Zena Holman with all good wishes by Robinson Jeffers. — A twenty-year-old piece of verse but it still seems appropriate, though now a little sadly so." Zena G. Holman (1891-1980) and her husband, Wilford R. Holman owned the Holman Department Store in Pacific Grove, California. She was a noted collector of Californiana, and her library of Jack London material is now in the Diablo Vista District Archives in Sonoma. In the mid-1930s, Holman began building a Jeffers collection, as well; in a letter dated November 6, 1936, Jeffers' wife Una provides Holman with bibliographic details of Jeffers' work, and offers her a few first editions "in exchange for credit at your store" (see Collected Letters, Stanford, 2011). The Jeffers and Holman became friends in the years following, with Robinson Jeffers sending Holman manuscript poems and other inscribed material for her collection, including that offered in the following seven lots.
Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Robinson Jeffers") and Inscribed, 1 p, 4to, Tor House, Carmel, California, September 2, 1942, being a fair copy of the poem "Autumn Evening," folding creases, fine. Jeffers copies one of his better known poems for a collector, adding below, "Copied for Zena Holman with all good wishes by Robinson Jeffers. — A twenty-year-old piece of verse but it still seems appropriate, though now a little sadly so." Zena G. Holman (1891-1980) and her husband, Wilford R. Holman owned the Holman Department Store in Pacific Grove, California. She was a noted collector of Californiana, and her library of Jack London material is now in the Diablo Vista District Archives in Sonoma. In the mid-1930s, Holman began building a Jeffers collection, as well; in a letter dated November 6, 1936, Jeffers' wife Una provides Holman with bibliographic details of Jeffers' work, and offers her a few first editions "in exchange for credit at your store" (see Collected Letters, Stanford, 2011). The Jeffers and Holman became friends in the years following, with Robinson Jeffers sending Holman manuscript poems and other inscribed material for her collection, including that offered in the following seven lots.
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