Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, from his classic novel Roots, beginning: “In the memory of Chicken George, nothing had ever generated such excitement among North Carolina gamecockers as the news that spread swiftly during late November of 1855 that the wealthy Massa Jewett was entertaining as his house guest a titled, equally rich gamecocker from England who had brought with him across the ocean thirty of his pure-breed ‘Old English Game’ birds, said to be the finest breed of fighting cocks in existence.” Signed at the bottom in black felt tip. Typescript is affixed to an identical size sheet of cardstock. In fine condition. RR Auction COA.
