Ink signature, “Washington Irving, Sunnyside, Jan’y 19th 1857,” on an off-white 3.5 x 2.25 slip. Affixed to a slightly larger card, In fine condition, with slight show-through from adhesive to reverse. Sunnyside was Irving’s estate in southern New York, an architecturally impressive ‘cottage’ that Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., said stood ‘next to Mount Vernon as the best known and most cherished of all the dwellings in our land.’ Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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