Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — Appreciation of Authors. [ARTICLE]

Appreciation of Authors.

That Americans are not without appreciation of their great authors—after the great authors are dead —was demonstrated at a sale in New York city, ■where a collectiomof 33 holograph letters of Nathaniel IBiwthorne, with engraved portraits, brought $2,000 from W. H. James. In the collection were letters to Hawthorne and his family from Emerson, Whittier, Bret Harte, Browning, Eugene Field and Irving. Two thousand dollars is a good, round price to pay for a few old letters, even if they were written by or to an author.of the repute of Hawthorne. It is easy to imagine what Hawthorne would have thought on the subject if he could have foreseen this transaction when he was writing juvenile classics like the “Tanglewood Tales” and “Grandfather’s Chair” for S. G. Goodrich, and receiving in remuneration sometimes no more than SSO a volume.