Item #249396 Autograph Letter, signed, to Mr.Robinson, remembering his father very well as "one of the most prominent & popular members of the Class of 1841 (Yale). Ik Marvel, Donald Grant Mitchell.

Autograph Letter, signed, to Mr.Robinson, remembering his father very well as "one of the most prominent & popular members of the Class of 1841 (Yale).

np: `, 16 January, 1904.

Price: $100.00


About the item

1-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine, some ink smudging.

Item #249396

Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) is best known has Ik. Marvel, or Ike Marvel, names that resulted from a misprint of his chosen pseudonym, J. K. Marvel. Books on model farming and the pleasrures of rural life, such as the present volume and "My Farm of Edgewood," were Mitchell's preferred style, though his "Reveries of a Bachelor" and similarly sentiment writings were much more popular.

Reading in part:

"...I remember your father very well, he having been one of the most prominent & popular members of the class of 1841..."