American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain (1829-1900). AMS signed "Chas. Dudley Warner," five pages, 5.5 x 9, comprising his essay "Washington Irving's Humor." Charles Dudley Warner's appreciation of the writings of Washington Irving, with an estimate of his literary immortality and the reasons for it. In small part: "Perhaps The Critic can prove in its centennial estimate of Washington Irving, that he was not a great man, and that he owed to primacy in our letters, rather than to genius, his conspicuous position. But a writer does not hold his position in literature for nearly a century by any accident of being first in a provincial field…Whatever the quality of his genius or the measure of his capacity may be, Irving is personally beloved as few other writers of this country are." Each page is affixed to a larger worn sheet. In very good to fine condition, with light creasing, and show-through at the corners from mounting residue on the reverse.
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