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LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS]. IRVING, WASHINGTON. Autograph letter signed to Cornelius Conway Felton (a Harvard professor and classical scholar, president of Harvard for a short time), Sunnyside, 17 May 1859 (some six months before Irving's death), 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, creased from folding, blank last page (with Felton's docket) slightly soiled: "I cannot sufficiently express to you how much I feel myself obliged to your very kind letter...giving such a favorable notice of my last volume [vol. 5 of his Life of George Washington , just published]. I have been very much out of health of late, with my nerves in a bad state and with occasional depression of spirits, and in this forlorn plight had come to feel very dubious about the volume I had committed to the press. Your letter had a most salutary and cheering effect, and your assurance that the last volume had been to you of more absorbing interest than either of the others carried a ray of joy to my heart, for I was sadly afraid the interest might be considered as falling off..."--SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Autograph letter signed ("W Scott") to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (a life-long friend, antiquary who supplied Scott with information for his novels, and artist), Abbotsford, n.d., one page, 8vo, integral leaf with address in Scott's hand: "I have fished Grew [conceivably Nehemiah Grew's Comparative Anatomy ] out from among my books with some difficulty and request you to amuse yourself with him till I come to town and as much longer as you please..."--DANA, RICHARD HENRY, Jr., Autograph letter signed ("R.H. Dana Jr") to J.D. Baldwin (probably John Denison Baldwin, anti-slavery journalist and publisher of the Worcester Spy ), Boston, 13 October 1862, 4 full pages, 4to, on pale blue paper, some fold tears affecting a few letters , a long, detailed letter entirely regarding the disagreement over a change in wording of a resolution Dana had introduced before a "Convention" (anti-slavery convention?): "...I introduced the resolve into the Convention; it was read & debated & referred, with other resolves, to the Committee. My resolve read 'Support etc' 'the President of the United States etc.' The Committee struck out 'President of the United States,' & inserted 'the Government,' or some other general & abstract term. When the Committee reported it, so amended, Mrs. [Lydia Maria] Child called the attention of the Convention to the change, deprecated it as an intentional disparagement of the President [Abraham Lincoln]...Yet, no member of the Committee attempted to deny or explain it..."--MARRYAT, Captain FREDERICK. Autograph letter signed ("F Marryat") to Mary Ingraham (daughter of Edward Duffield Ingraham, the Philadelphia lawyer and important book collector--see lot 161 for a Marryat book inscribed to her), [London] 25 January 1841, 3 pages, 4to, address panel in Marryat's hand, creased from folding, two slight marginal tears, seal hole renewed , a friendly social letter in which Marryat thanks Mary Ingraham for a gift of slippers, discusses the Ingrahams coming over to London, touches on English politics, and mentions sending her one of his books: "...I want to send you a copy of Poor Jack [his most recent book, first issued in parts in 1840] with all the plates, but I do not know whether I had not better wait until a new Editon comes out as the plates will be so much better in consequence of our having procured a better paper for engraving on. However I shall watch my opportunity & if you had rather not wait, let me know & I will send them out at once..."--KINGSLEY, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("C Kingsley") to "My dear Friend," on his stationery embossed "Eversley Rectory, Winchfield," 23 March 1872, 4 pages, 12mo, long split at center vertical fold , a fine letter: "...I did mention you as one of my 'masters and teachers' in Vol. 1 p. 246 [of At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies, 1871], coupling your name with those of Humboldt etc. -- and I longed for you both again in the W. Indies