Autograph album, 1907-1908.

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Autograph album, 1907-1908.

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Contains the autograph signatures of J. Pierpont Morgan, J.S. Morgan, Bishop William Croswell Doane, Samuel Clemens, Arthur Wollaston Hutton, and Seymour de Ricci. Also contains a letter laid in addressed to Belle Greene of New York, and signed from "Gardner". In the letter the writer describers the autograph album: "Here is a little book I designed and had bound for you by a Florentine craftsman a stone's throw almost from the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. I am jealous that it should see you first. In the beginning the literature will not appeal to you but when you have it filled with inscribed autographs you may not be sorry to have had it by."

1 v. (ca. 30 leave) ; 25 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7220489

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