Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Robert Breckinridge, 1966 Feb. 1.

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Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Robert Breckinridge, 1966 Feb. 1.

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Thanking him for a copy of George Moore's "The Brooke Kerith": "I began early with Mr. Moore, he was the fashionable, acclaimed non pareil literary man of his day, which happened to be from my infancy to young womanhood--I read everything of course, and quite hero-worshipped that wordly mind!"

1 item (1 p.) ; 25.1 cm. + with envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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