Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

237 c   EMERSON, RALPHWALDO.Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragment from a draft of his lecture,“Aristocracy,”with numerous holograph corrections. 2 pages, oblong 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; inlaid. Np, nd [700/1,000] “The service we receive from the great is a mutual deference. If you deal with a vulgar mind, life is reduced to beggary.The astronomers were eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere; I am only concerned that every man have one. . . .” “Aristocracy” appears in The CompleteWorks of RalphWaldo Emerson , vol. 10, Boston & New York, 1803-82. 238    FRANCE, ANATOLE. Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear friend,” in French, relating his intention to visit the tomb of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, and describing the trees and valleys of Le Hohwald. 2 1 / 2 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet, quad-ruled paper; cello tape and rubber cement repairs to tears at lower edge of first and second pages, some loss to center vertical fold, faint scattered toning. sold as is . Strasbourg [France], “Tuesday” [80/120] 239 c   HARDY,THOMAS.Autograph Letter Signed,“T. Hardy,” to Charles Read Nutter (“Dear Mr. Nutter”), granting permission to include his “The Three Strangers” in Nutter’s collection, Specimens of Prose Composition , 1907. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank (detached), “The Athenaeum” stationery; horizontal fold. [London], 8 June 1907 [400/600] “You have my permission to use ‘The Three Strangers’ in your book of Selections [sic] in Prose Com- position. Please print it from the text in the last edition by the Harpers, the magazine form of the story having some discrepancies . . . .” 237