Autograph letter signed from Horace Porter, New York, to Bram Stoker [manuscript], 1885 May 5.

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Autograph letter signed from Horace Porter, New York, to Bram Stoker [manuscript], 1885 May 5.

Porter thanks Stoker and quotes from Titus Andronicus "Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow."

2 leaves ; 20 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7525888

Folger Shakespeare Library

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