Letters to Harry Elkins Widener : manuscript, 1911-1912.

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Letters to Harry Elkins Widener : manuscript, 1911-1912.

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Widener published a private edition of 45 copies of R.L. Stevenson's Memoir of himself from a manuscript in his collection. Fourteen letters are from collectors and libraries acknowledging copies. There are three unrelated letters to Widener from Edmund Gosse and W.K. Bixby and from Widener to Luther S. Livingston.

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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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