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Title: Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students. Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c. To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting.
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Scott, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Subjects: Autographs Autographs Autographs Autographs
Publisher: London : L.U. Gill
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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s. By the mere possession of a letter, curiosity isexcited about the writer and all the surrounding circumstancesconcerning him, the time in which he lived, the events inwhich he participated. Thus dates and vicissitudes are rootedin the mind, and grow with its growth and experience. More-over, with length of days before him, a young man, even with-out means, can gather up correspondence—floating about andeasily obtained—of men sure to rise to eminence some day.Had anyone commenced getting together letters of CharlesDickens, and his literary friends, in 1825, with portraits,newspaper cuttings, reviews, tickets of admission to thevarious public and private entertainments, readings, etc., withwhich Dickens was connected, it is scarcely too much to say 30 ATJTOGEAPH COLLECTING. that the possessor of these things, which might have beenacquired by little cost and exertion, would have realised asmuch saleable wealth as many fairly successful tradesmenwould have saved in the same period.
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CHAPTER VI. Autograph Collecting. EARLY every person has sufficient interest in onedirection or another to obtain autographs of eminentpeople—artists, authors, actors, painters, statesmen,or others. True that many of these may not atpresent be men of any special mark, and thegreater portion may never achieve prominent distinction, butsome of them will, and the correspondence of even onecelebrity is a valuable possession. By enlisting the interestof friends, and letting it be known as widely as possiblethat one ds fond of old writings, one is sure now and thenof securing a prize. Dealers in waste paper, auctioneers,small shop-keepers, and all other likely persons, should beinduced to look out for such things, and report when theyhear of them. We may be sure of this, that there are lettersof the greatest interest sufficient to satisfy the desire of themost eager collector lying perdues, which only want looking afterand discovering, and we shall by-and-by give some furtherhints about t

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