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Letter from Edwin Percy Whipple to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Praising her Writing and Excoriating the State of American Theater, 1851 by [Nineteenth Century Literature - Literary Criticism - Feminist Authors] Whipple, Edwin Percy

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Title: Letter from Edwin Percy Whipple to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Praising her Writing and Excoriating the State of American Theater, 1851
Author: [Nineteenth Century Literature - Literary Criticism - Feminist Authors] Whipple, Edwin Percy
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston, 1851. Autograph letter signed by Whipple and addressed to Oakes at her Brooklyn address. Fine condition. 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches bifolium. Fine. An interesting letter written by critic Edwin Percy Whipple to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, encouraging her to publish in Graham Magazine. He then offers sympathies on a play performed in Philadelphia, and excoriates the American theatre and its inability to do justice to Shakespeare’s work. The letter was written during the period when Oakes published her “Woman and Her Needs” series in the New York Tribune, though it would appear from subsequent events that Whipple’s opinion had been formed by her earlier work. Whipple’s views on Smith would change later and be marked by Whipple's negative critiques of Smith's writing. In 1855, Whipple published a review of Smith's book "The Sinless Child," which criticized her unconventional views on marriage and motherhood. Smith responded with a scathing letter, accusing Whipple of being a "literary bully" and a "spiritual coward" in a letter she sent to the editor of the Boston Evening Transcript on September 25, 1855. Full text follows: Boston, March 1, 1851 Dear Madam, I have but just time to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Feby 26th, being about to start for Buffalo. On my return I will write to Graham, and I can assure you that your powers as a writer will lose nothing in my statement. I cannot conceive of any reason why Mr. Graham should not be proud to have you among his contributors, and think that there must be some misapprehension on his or your part in regard to the matter. I know that he is desirous of having articles from the best and most eminent native writers and, deductively from that proposition, he must desire to have articles from yourself. There is a logical compliment for you! I am sorry that the tragedy was not better acted in Philadelphia, but the truth is that there are no stock companies in the Country whose acting could save a new play of Shakespeare himself. Go into a theatre, and hear their tame and flat delivery of the text of Hamlet or Macbeth, - see how they loosen all his silver cords and break all his golden bowls - and then you are not surprised that they fail in recommending our American plays. Mrs. Whipple often alludes to you, and would be delighted to see you in Boston. She sends her best regards and remembrances. As soon as I can hear from Graham, I will write to you. Very Sincerely Yours, E. P. Whipple.

Aesop's Fables by Aesop

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Title: Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: fine
Description: New York: Limited Editions Cub, 1933. Hardcover. fine. Samuel Croxall's translation with a bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer. With forty six Florentine woodcuts, reproduced from a rare sixteenth century Aesop in the library of Wilfred Merton and redrawn by Rogers. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by him, printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford.Bound in quarter vellum and marbled paper boards. Slipcase worn at the edges. Former owner's bookplate. Publisher's informational postcard laid in.

NEW VICTOR RECORDS (Apr 1940) Pamphlet by RCA Victor

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Title: NEW VICTOR RECORDS (Apr 1940) Pamphlet
Author: RCA Victor
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Description: RCA Victor. No binding. Near Fine. [Camden, NJ]: RCA Victor, April 1940. Vintage original 6 1/4 x 2 3/4" (16 x 7 cm) pamphlet, opens up to 6 1/4 x 24" (16 x 61 cm), pictorial wrappers, near fine. Paul Robeson's prestige at the time was sufficient enough that he was included in this mostly-classical music catalog for (RCA) Victor, in which he is also pictured.

The Long Arm of Lee; Or, The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. With a Brief Account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance. Illustrated. Two Volumes. Volume I [and] Volume II [Two volume set, complete]. by Wise, Jennings Cropper.

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Title: The Long Arm of Lee; Or, The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. With a Brief Account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance. Illustrated. Two Volumes. Volume I [and] Volume II [Two volume set, complete].
Author: Wise, Jennings Cropper.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company, Inc., 1915. [Morningside Facsimile, n.d.]. Two volume set. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 995 pp. Fine.

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