Lot 54
Lot 54
PROPERTY FROM THE ROGER D. JUDD COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL LETTERS, DOCUMENTS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Fenimore Cooper on Tecumseh

Paris, April 1827

    Price Realised USD 2,750
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    Fenimore Cooper on Tecumseh

    Paris, April 1827

    Price Realised USD 2,750
    Price Realised USD 2,750
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    COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851). Autograph manuscript signed ("J. Fenimore Cooper"), Paris, 9 April 1827.

    One page, 162 x 114mm.

    On Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison: in an apparently unpublished fragment, the author best-known for his frontier novels writes of the storied meeting between Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and General William Henry Harrison at Vincennes in August 1810. Cooper describes Tecumseh's manner—he declined a stool and instead "seated himself, with dignity, on the ground"—and his 5 October 1813 death. Signed autograph manuscripts from Cooper are scarce; ABPC records only three at auction in the last thirty years.
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