Autograph letter signed ("George Cabot Lodge") concerning the return of a manuscript and "sale of the volume of poems"
Washington, D.C: [c.1905].
Price: $250.00
About the item
1p. pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Toning, old folds, mended, very good.
Item #249667
George Cabot Lodge (1873-1909) was the son of the eminent Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. A graduate of Harvard, he studied abroad and settled in Washington as secretary to his father. Henry Adams thought him one of the great minds of his time. He served with distinction in the Spanish-American War, returning to Congressional duties and contributing poems to various periodicals. Before his untimely death from a heart attack, he published several volumes of poetry and two poetic dramas, Cain, and Herakles, on which his fame rests. These, noted the DAB, “do not suffer in comparison with any others in American literature. A half-dozen of his sonnets belong with the best in our language.”
Reads in part :
"Will you kindly return to me the MSS. of mynovel----which you have. I wish to look it over & make some corrections.I should be very much obliged if you would---give me some w---as to the sale of the volume of poems..."
