RARE Typed, Signed note by author Richard Wright
  $   95

 


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Apr 24, 2012 Sold Date
Apr 17, 2012 Start Date
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A typed, single-side notice signed "Richard Wright" alerting ship authorities to the loss of phonograph records and cigarettes and directing their delivery, if found, to Richard Wright c/o Gertrude Stein, ca. 1946. 5 1/4" x 8" plain paper, approx. 22 lines, typed, signed.

We're auctioning a rare piece of ephemera. Richard Wright and Gertrude Stein struck up a correspondence in 1945 and in 1946 Wright was invited to Paris as a guest of the French government. En route to Paris in May, via the S.S. Brazil, Wright lost track of 6 phonograph records and 8 cartons of Camel cigarettes. This note lays claim to the property and directs the ship's authorities to make delivery, if located, to Wright chez Stein during his months-long stay in the city. Wright's time with Stein was brief, the latter died in July of 1946; Wright returned to America in December. A bright piece, strongly signed in black ink, with mild soiling to the foot of the page (away from the signature) and a pencil note regarding date/place of the note in an unknown hand. From a private collection, purchased in the 1997 auction of African-Americana at Swann Galleries.

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