Lot 1062
Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908), American editor and author, created the characters Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and friends. ALS, 1p, 5½ x 8½ Atlanta, Jan. 6, 1883. Letter of Atlanta "Constitution" letterhead to a Professor J.A. Harrison, interesting literary content regarding the "Creole Patois of Louisiana", refers to "the allusion in Dr. Mercier's specimen to the fact that the terapin, upon a previous occasion, had beaten the rabbit in a trial of speed. Can this be a reference to Aesop. If so, it has been injected, for a negro myth-story is a negro myth-story, whether it be told in Portuguese, French or English." And "I must thank you for your kindly mention of Uncle Remus. Somehow or other, nobody approaches the old man in a critical spirit, and for this I am grateful. It has saved me a great deal of mortification…" Also an interesting postscript- "do you have the joree in Virginia? And is it the starling? In Putnam county, Ga. I have heard the negroes use the name adjectively, as ‘Whar John?’ ‘Don't ax me; dat nigger done gone joreein’ This may mean anything or nothing."
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
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