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Show Appreciation of Author. That Americans are not without appreciation ap-preciation of their great authors-after authors-after the great authors are dead was demonstrated at a sale In New York city, where a collection of 33 holograph letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with engraved portraits, brought $2,000 from W. H. James. In the collection wen letters to Hawthorne and his family from Emerson, Whlttier, Bret Harte, Browning, Eugene Field and Irving. Two thousand dollars is a good, round price to pay for a few old letters, let-ters, even if they were written by or to an author of the repute of Hawthorne. Haw-thorne. It is easy to imagine what Hawthorne would have thought on the subject if he could have foreseen this transaction when he was writing Juvenile Juve-nile classics like the "Tanglewooi Tales' and "Grandfather's Chair" for S. G. Goodrich, and receiving In remuneration remu-neration sometimes no more than $50 a volume. |