British author (1849-1924) of such children's classics as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. Three items signed by Burnett, including a signature and two letters: an ink signature, "Yours sincerely, Frances Hodgson Burnett, December ''97," on a white 4.5 x 2.75 card; an ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.75, black-bordered letterhead, February 11, 1893, in small part: "I am not preparing a series of autobiographical articles for any magazine. I have written one article for the Home Journal which is called 'How Fauntleroy Occurred'"; and an an ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 6.75, in part: "Will you be as kind as possible to this little story. It is the work of a young girl in whom I am much interested…she and her mother were friends of President Garfield whom I knew well and admired greatly. Under the new administration her mother has lost the office Garfield obtained for her…She has written a good many little things for childrens papers which pay very small sums. So she finally came to me for advice. She lives in Georgetown—that interesting and left-behind place—and seems to have studied the negro character rather closely." In overall very good to fine condition, with rusty circular paperclip impressions to the tops of the letters, and light toning and soiling.
