Sale 293


 
Lot 3298



Postal Card, 1894, 2¢ green (UX9), an exceptionally clean postal card on the scarce card stock, postmarked by "Honolulu H.I. Apr 2, 1896" duplex addressed to Miss Annie Ide in Apia, Samoa, long personal message on reverse, Very Fine (U.P.S.S. S9).
Estimate 400 - 600

Annie L. Ide was the mother of Annie H. Ide Cockran, to whom Robert Louis Stevenson bequeathed his birthday of November 13. The younger Ide had been born on Christmas day. Stevenson, then a resident of Samoa, was a friend of H.C. Ide, young Annie's father.

Included is a copy of Stevenson's 1937 pamphlet "…born, out of all reason, upon Christmas Day…", in which he bequeaths his birthday to Ide.

Also included is a first edition (1947) of
Bourke Cockran, A Free Lance in American Politics by James McGurrin, a 361 page hard cover book detailing the political career of William Bourke Cockran, an influential U.S. Congressman from New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the husband of Annie H. Ide.

 
Realized $900



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