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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A by WHARTON, Edith

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Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
Title
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A
Author
WHARTON, Edith
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Normal creases. Near Fine
Description
Letter. Normal creases. Near Fine. Four-page letter on both sides of one 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" sheet of Curtis Hotel, Lenox Massachusetts stationery folded in half and addressed to Mrs. Bell and SIGNED as "E. Wharton." Wharton states that she has received a letter from her husband following his talk with Mrs. Bell "& of the more hopeful attitude of the board," adding "I am so afraid of having shown trop de zèle in my long screed to Mr. Opdycke (written on the way here) that I send this line to ask you all to believe that all I want is to help & not to direct this movement." Wharton further asks her correspondent to tell Mr. Opdycke "to disregard, in my letter, whatever is not relevant, & above all, not to bother to answer it.... Just forward this to Mr. Opdycke & ask him to regard it as a postscript. I am always haunted by the fact that we started this campaign with so few specific cases in hand & I simply wrote him suggesting points which might be made against the Society's general management." In a postscript Wharton reports, "Here is a small instance of the Soc.'s methods. A very respectable man whom Teddy has known for years, & who owns valuable shooting dogs, told me that five or six years ago he lost a very valuable Irish setter, a pedigree dog. Being convinced it had been stolen, he went, after two or three months, to the S.P.C.A., stated his case & asked if they would look through their record of newly licensed dogs (it was just after licenses had been given out) & see if the dog could be traced. The answer was: 'Too much trouble''. He then offered to pay the expenses if they wd. employ some one to have it done, & they refused.-- Result: one possible subscriber alienated." Wharton's correspondent was likely Edith Bell (1857-1946), wife of Leonard Opdycke Sr. (1856-1914), a New York lawyer and social philanthropist. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in New York in 1866.
An Autobiography

An Autobiography by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Title
An Autobiography
Author
Wright, Frank Lloyd
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The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/good. First edition, first printing of An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the scarce dust jacket, designed by the author.. Square octavo, iv, 371pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, top edge dyed red, light rubbing to corners, faint offsetting to endpapers. Free of marks or notations, possibly unread. Complete with 65 illustration, photographs and plates designed by the author. In the publisher's scarce but soiled dust jacket, price-clipped, with dampstained edges and a small loss to top left corner. (Sweeney 303) No impact from dust jacket dampstain to cloth or text block. This first edition of An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright, published in 1932, is considered his best writing. It was released to widespread acclaim and reissued in 1933 with a limp cloth cover and dust jacket. Wright also published The Disappearing City in 1932, published by William Farquhar Payson (Sweeney, 328).

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