Autograph and typed letters signed from James B. Pond, New York, to William Winter, New York [manuscript], 1896-1903.

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Autograph and typed letters signed from James B. Pond, New York, to William Winter, New York [manuscript], 1896-1903.

Many of the letters concern various speakers with whom Pond is working; several letters mention Mr. Clemens and Dr. Watson (pseudonym Ian Maclaren). Most on printed letterhead of James B. Pond, Everett House, New York; (4-5) on letterhead of the Ian Maclaren Lectures and Readings at the Waldorf; (14) on letterhead of the Red Horse Hotel, Stratford on Avon.

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