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Lot #698
19th Century Notables Autograph Album with Samuel L. Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, and Benjamin Harrison

19th-century autograph album filled with dozens of literary notables, including Samuel L. Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, and several New England poets

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19th-century autograph album filled with dozens of literary notables, including Samuel L. Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, and several New England poets

Hardcover autograph album, 7.5 x 5.75, containing approximately 45 autographs affixed inside, most on clipped slips or cards. Signers include: President Benjamin Harrison, Samuel L. Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, Edward Everett Hale, George W. Cable, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Francis Marion Crawford, Wendell Phillips, Julian Ralph, John Kendrick Bangs, Porfirio Diaz, Joseph Jefferson, Ernest T. Seton, Matthew Quay, Will Carleton, Édouard de Reszke, Reginald De Koven, Palmer Cox, Amelia E. Barr, Robert J. Burdette, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Carolyn Wells, and a few others. In overall fine condition. A desirable autograph collection, focused primarily on writers but also featuring a few musicians, artists, and politicians.

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