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(Literary Autographs) Late 19th- and early 20th-century English-language authors and other notables: Dodge, Mary Mapes. Autograph Letter Signed. New York, September 22, 1873. 1 p., small 4to, integral leaf; light creases along old folds, slightly dusty. On Scribner's Monthly printed letterhead, "Scribner's Monthly" crossed out in ink, "St Nicholas" substituted in ink. Responding to a prospective contributor. * Le Gallienne, Richard. Autograph Letter Signed. Rowayton, [June 1911]. 1 p. 8vo; light creasing at old folds, some spotting, slightly dusty. Placing an order with the bookseller James A. Jenkins for Willam Morris' The Well at the World's End and The Wood Beyond the World. * Morley, Christopher. Autogtaph Manuscript Signed. "Powders of Sympathy." (1928). 9 p., 4to, on rectos only, stapled. Contribution to the Saturday Review, discussing James Howell's Epistolae Ho-Elianae, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Lytton Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex, includes typewritten quotations from Howell, Digby, and Strachey. * Mitchell, S. Weir. Autogtaph Letter Signed. Philadelphia, no date. 1 1/2 p., 12mo. In pencil on his 1524 Walnut Street, Philadelphia letterhead. Light creasing and minor discoloration. * Wanamaker, John. Autograph Letter Signed. No place, February 12, 1902. 1 p., 12mo; some creasing. On the back of a color printed Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen ship's menu. * Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Autograph Letter Signed. Hollis Maine, June 8, 1914. 1 p., 12mo; light creasing, minor spotting. On her Quillcote-on-Saco letterhead. * Lot also includes manuscript list of American and British literary first editions, values and points compiled by Mr. William Fry, late 1920's on 16 8vo sheets (32 p.).