Lot 593
Wharton, Edith. (1862-1937) American
Novelist and Short Story writer, author of the Age of Innocence (1920)
for which she received the Pulitzer Prize. Inscribed Visiting Card Signed.
3 x 2", on cream card stock. Penned in blue ink recto/verso "Dear Miss
Bartol, / my friend Mrs. Reyall Tyler, Vice Prest & honorary treasurer of my
war charities, & my valiant collaborator since 1915, is sailing immediately to
see our committees in America & explain what we have done.-- She knows of your
interest & sympathy, & I was to have given her a letter to you, but there is no
time to do more than this. I do hope she will see you/ yours E Wharton."
Estimated Value $400-600.