Autograph Manuscript page from "Count Van Horn" in Wolfert's Roost.
[ca.1840].
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
1 page. 17 lines, numbered "p.244", a few crossouts. WITH: Another page from the same manuscript, 25 lines. Together 2 pages. Very Good.
Item #305581
Two manuscript pages from Irving's short story "Count Van Horn," originally published in the Knickerbocker magazine for March 1840, and gathered in the collection Wolfert's Roost (1855). The first page, numbered "244" in keeping with the pagination in the Knickerbocker, begins: "A circumstance which occurs in this part of the Count's story seems to point him out as a fated man. His mother and his brother the Prince Van Horn had received intelligence some time before at Baussigny of the dissolute life the count was leading at Paris and of his losses at play...." The second page, from a point further on in the story, begins: "Regard the story in any way they might, appearances were terribly against the Count, and the noble assemlage was in great consternation. What was to be done to ward off so foul a disgrace and to save their illustrious escutcheones from this murderous stain of blood?...."
