Autograph Letter, signed.
Chicago: 25 May 1893.
Price: $350.00
About the item
One page, in ink, on single panel of quarto folded lettersheet. 1 vols. Folded for mailing, otherwise fine, with envelope addressed in his hand (stamp cut away).
Item #248857
To "Mrs. Coonley," most likely Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, the prominent suffragette / philanthropist / poet / patroness (1845-1924) of Wyoming and Chicago, and widow of J.C. Coonley. Field writes apologetically: "Your courteous invitation for last evening reached me too late for acceptance. We have moved our place of residence ... Pray acquit us of any apparent rudeness; the loss is wholly ours. Very cordially yours, Eugene Field." Accompanied by a small photogravure portrait of the author, signed in pencil in the margin -- most likely a frontispiece extracted from a book.
