To
Fannie Dennis
17 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00578)
17 February 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00578)
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Buffalo, Feb. 17/71.
Miss Fannie Dennis:
Brooklyn:
Brooklyn:
To write an autograph is no trouble at all, when a body is used to it, but I never have tried to add a “sentiment” in my life, & so I assure you it comes awkward enough.1explanatory note Therefore, let us judge just dodge the difficulty entirely & make use of somebody else’s sentiment. Now I always admired that neat & snappy thing which good old John Bunyan said to the Duke of Wellington: “Give me liberty, or give me death!” It Isn’t Ⓐemendationit pretty?
Explanatory Notes
1
Dennis’s autograph request is not known to survive. She has not been further identified.
MS, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.
L4 , 334.
The current location of the MS, owned in 1980 by James Pepper and in 1983 by Axelrod, is not known.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.