by Williams, Samuel
quarto, 3 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
1849 Youthful letter by a future San Francisco literary journalist who befriended Mark Twain.
When in 1921, the Book Club of California commissioned the Grabhorn Press to print "City of the Golden Gate", a description of San Francisco in 1875, it was a tribute to author Samuel Williams' literary renown; when he died in 1881, after 15 years as veteran literary editor and book reviewer of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, William was probably as well-known in the city's literary circles as his friend Mark Twain.
Thirty years earlier, (truncated)
1849 Youthful letter by a future San Francisco literary journalist who befriended Mark Twain.
When in 1921, the Book Club of California commissioned the Grabhorn Press to print "City of the Golden Gate", a description of San Francisco in 1875, it was a tribute to author Samuel Williams' literary renown; when he died in 1881, after 15 years as veteran literary editor and book reviewer of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, William was probably as well-known in the city's literary circles as his friend Mark Twain.
Thirty years earlier, (truncated)
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