(WESTERN AMERICANA) HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH. History of the United States from 986 to 1905. New York, 1905. First edition

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  (WESTERN AMERICANA) HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH
  History of the United States from 986 to 1905. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First edition.
  
  Extra-Illustrated copy including handwritten letters by Higginson, his wife as well as original photographs and other ephemera. There are numerous letters by Higginson to Franklin Sanborn, Monkhouse and others. Higginson was a literary mentor to Emily Dickinson. During the Civil War, Higginson was the Colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, which was the first Union regiment authorized for freedmen. Among the letters at the end, from Mrs. Higginson, one describes that the cabinet photo of Higginson in uniform [which is tipped into the front of this volume], stating that it has never been published.
  
  8vo, red cloth, head of spine torn.
  
  
  
  Estimate $ 1,000-2,000
  
  Ex libris George Steele Seymour, of the Pullman Corporation, a founder of The Bookfellows. In Seymour's autobiography, ADVENTURES WITH MEN AND BOOKS, he describes collecting extra-illustrated books, for which he suggests an apter descriptor as "ecritomes". At p. 45 he describes this volume from his ecritomes. " My Higginson autographic material is preserved in a copy of his one-volume HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Among it is a slip reading, ' for Mr. Seymour. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Cambridge, Mass.' ... One of the letters [ to Mr. Morehouse] is of more than passing interest.' "
  Higginson was a leading literary luminary, who mentored Emily Dickinson. He was also the Colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first Union regiment raised by enlisting freedmen. Laid in is a cabinet photo, in uniform, of Higginson taken by W Notman of Boston, signed by TWH. Tipped in are numerous signatures, notes and letters by TWH to [ Horatio?] Alger, Franklin Sanborn, and others. One letter to an unnamed correspondent, Aug. 13, 1854, thanks him for a copy of "Walden", and mentions Margaret Fuller. Also, two letters from Mrs. Higginson, sending the photograph of TWH to the Seymours, and noting that the photograph was unpublished.
  
  Additionally, the book has been enhanced with tipped-in illustrations, including two snapshots: one at Concord, Mass., and another at Cambridge.
  
  Ex libris George Steele Seymour, of the Pullman Corporation. He and his wife, Flora, founded The Bookfellows. Seymour's autobiography was ADVENTURES WITH BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS
  
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