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Lot 170

Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 - 600
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$1,125
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GODWIN, William (1756-1836). Autograph Letter Signed ("William Godwin"), to an unnamed recipient. Skinner Street, Snow Hill, 31 October 1817. 


1p., 4to, matted and framed with an engraved portrait, unexamined out of frame. Asking the return of a bust of his recently-deceased friend: "I have always much wished to have the...bust of my friend...which I sent to you some years ago, returned to me, & the melancholy event of his death has now greatly increased my anxiety on the subject." 


Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

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