Search Results: Authors starting with L from Montgomery Rare Books

Bath, England, 1835. Fine (2) / Good + (1). 9" x 7.25", 9 pp., with usual mail folds, occasional light foxing, otherwise fine. 1835: Invites James to Bath as his plan to move to Brussels is dreadful due to the weather; critiques his own work as, "My verses are easy and conversational - not a transposition in them". 1836: Original verse praising Charles Elton, "Elton! What genius virtue leads along / Where the pure passions sing to sirens song"; Critques his own "The Death of Clytemnestra, "In the Death of Clysemestra I out to have written thee and thou throughout instead of you. In the Agammenon's not, beause a daughter to a father would rather use the respectfulness...Pray the correct the yous.". 1841; Top 1.5" separated from stress at fold, Shared pleasantries; Discusses his brother Robert, "Nothing is truly more ridiculous than to walk to a throne on stilts.", Inquires if Saunders and Otley have sent him the completion of his… Read More

Cambridge, MA, 1868. Very good. 7.875" x 4.75", 2 pp., on stationary embossed with "L" at the top. Three mailing folds, 1/2" tear along center fold, light fade along fore edge, two mounting tabs on rear, includes original mailing envelope and 3-cent stamp. Content: Lowell declines invitation, "I feel myself highly honored by the choice which the ADP [Alpha Delta Phi] fraternity have made me to deliver a poem at the approaching anniversary, but it is quite out of my power to accept their invitation."; His humble response includes the opportunity to be with his friend, "..would have especially pleased me to have the honor of the day with my friend Mr. Curtis, but even so great a temptation cannot persuade me to undertake a task for which I feel myself incompetent."<br /> <br /> James Russell Lowell (Feb 1819 - Aug 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England… Read More