To Mary Mason Fairbanks
20 December 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Prince and the Pauper: Holmes, UCCL 11210)
20 December 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Prince and the Pauper: Holmes, UCCL 11210)
To
Mrs. A. W. Fairbanks,
Fair Banks,
Cleveland, Ohio.
With the love of her good & dutiful
adopted son
The Author.
Hartford, Dec. 20, 1881.
MS, inscription in SLC 1881, collection of Richard W. Holmes.
Bauman Rare Books catalog, 19–28 January 1996, lot 268; Sotheby’s catalog, 29 October 1996, no. 6904, lot 228; MicroPUL, reel 2.
The inscribed book was bought from Seven Gables Bookshop by Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs in 1970, offered for sale by Bauman in January 1996, sold as part of the Jacobs collection at Sotheby’s in October 1996, and then or thereafter acquired by Richard W. Holmes.