A Piece of History
Featured as our Piece of History today is 105-year old Her Letter, copyrighted 1905 by The Riverside Press, Cambridge. The book, in excellent condition, contains three poems by Bret Harte -- Her Letter, His Answer, and Her Last Letter. These poems are about the romance of two individuals as described in poetic letters to each other.
The book contains many color and black/white illustrations by Arthur I. Keller (1866-1924), a famous artist who drew for the first issue of Life, Harpers, Colliers, and for William Allen White.
Author Bret Harte, born in 1836, was at various times a teacher, miner, and journalist. His colorful stories about the West made California famous, and he was passionate about the treatment of minorities. Two of his most famous stories are The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat. He died of throat cancer in 1902.An excerpt from Her Letter:
I'm sitting alone by the fire,
Dressed just as I came from the dance,
In a robe even you would admire,--
It cost a cool thousand in France;
I'm be-diamonded out of all reason,
My hair is done up in a cue:
In short, sir, "the bell of the season"
Is wasting an hour upon you.
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