American writer Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is best known for her novels, poetry, and opera libretti marked a distinctive, playfully experimental, sometimes nonsensical use of language. Stein, together with her lover and longtime companion Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967), spent most of their adult lives as expatriates in France. An invitation to their legendary Paris salon became the de rigeur stamp of approval for up-and-coming artists and writers of the so-called Lost Generation (a phrase coined by Stein), including such luminaries-to-be as Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse. Ink signatures, “Gertrude Stein, July 26, 1914” and “A. B. Toklas, July 26th, 1914,” on the same red-ruled ivory 5.25 x 1.5 slip. Close trimming to bottom edge, near Toklas’ date, otherwise fine, bright condition. R&R COA.
