THREE PAGE LETTER TO “DARLING MINE” FROM “YOURS ONLY AND LONELY, AUTIE”.

THREE PAGE LETTER TO “DARLING MINE” FROM “YOURS ONLY AND LONELY, AUTIE”. Dated Wednesday, 8th, 11:30 p.m. 2 full sheets, folded, written on five sides, together with envelope from Hoffman House, Madison Square, New York./“Wed 8th 11.30 p.m./Darling Mine,/I have just finished a bowl of bread & milk in the Hoffman House restaurant and am now seated in the reading room doing that which gives me most pleasure when she is away. I’m writing a few words to my rosebud. Mrs. Green invited Keogh, Clara and myself to dinner there today. after dinner we all went to Fisks where the new opera- Le Geayieimes. It was very good. Keogh and I took Miss Cream & Case home and I have — here to say a few words to my peerless little one and i say this after full consideration of both sides of the questions. for all questions have two sides I have yet to see the woman who can compare to my darling in all that makes the character of women thoroughly pure and lovable. Other women never expose to me any but the bright side of their character so that I see them at their best. you have wintered and summered and while some people love winter and otherwise summer. for me give me Libbie or give me death. but I don’t want death nor do I want any other woman. I wrote to you about noon today. our friends in Can and Aspus(?) think we patronize the post office. suppose they wonder what we find to write about but it is no wonder to us. is it standby. Keogh — strange to say has undergone another change, he now thinks he will leave here saturday, spend sunday in Auburn and join you in Canandayer some time monday. The particulars—- he will telegraph you from Auburn and I will send you a telegram from here if possible – I wrote home for father to telegraph me whether Maggie was to be married this spring or fall, so that I could arrange accordingly. I just happened to which to tell you that for a wife and lovely companion I have not seen a woman in New York for whom I would give one of your night gowns. I should — to Mrs. Green the letters of the Galaxy asking me to write & offered me one hundred dollars for each article and they thought it perfectly expressed and splendid. only think I could earn a hundred dollars in about the time one requires to eat a moderately fashionable dinner – I mist say goodnight to one who approaches more nearly the essence of purity, true womanhood and faithfulness as a wife than any woman my eyes rested upon./Yours only & lonely/Autie”. 4-30913 (4,000-6,000)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2007

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	403	$18,975.00	THREE PAGE LETTER TO “DARLING MINE” FROM “YOURS ONLY AND LONELY, AUTIE”. Dated Wednesday, 8th, 11:30 p.m. 2 full sheets, folded, written on five sides, together with envelope from Hoffman House, Madison Square, New York./“Wed 8th 11.30 p.m./Darling Mine,/I have just finished a bowl of bread & milk in the Hoffman House restaurant and am now seated in the reading room doing that which gives me most pleasure when she is away. I’m writing a few words to my rosebud. Mrs. Green invited Keogh, Clara and myself to dinner there today. after dinner we all went to Fisks where the new opera- Le Geayieimes. It was very good. Keogh and I took Miss Cream & Case home and I have — here to say a few words to my peerless little one and i say this after full consideration of both sides of the questions. for all questions have two sides I have yet to see the woman who can compare to my darling in all that makes the character of women thoroughly pure and lovable. Other women never expose to me any but the bright side of their character so that I see them at their best. you have wintered and summered and while some people love winter and otherwise summer. for me give me Libbie or give me death. but I don’t want death nor do I want any other woman. I wrote to you about noon today. our friends in Can and Aspus(?) think we patronize the post office. suppose they wonder what we find to write about but it is no wonder to us. is it standby. Keogh — strange to say has undergone another change, he now thinks he will leave here saturday, spend sunday in Auburn and join you in Canandayer some time monday. The particulars—- he will telegraph you from Auburn and I will send you a telegram from here if possible – I wrote home for father to telegraph me whether Maggie was to be married this spring or fall, so that I could arrange accordingly. I just happened to which to tell you that for a wife and lovely companion I have not seen a woman in New York for whom I would give one of your night gowns. I should — to Mrs. Green the letters of the Galaxy asking me to write & offered me one hundred dollars for each article and they thought it perfectly expressed and splendid. only think I could earn a hundred dollars in about the time one requires to eat a moderately fashionable dinner – I mist say goodnight to one who approaches more nearly the essence of purity, true womanhood and faithfulness as a wife than any woman my eyes rested upon./Yours only & lonely/Autie”. 4-30913 (4,000-6,000) Auction: Firearms - Spring 2007 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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