HAMLIN GARLAND Novelist PSYCHIC Poet GREAT CONTENT Handwritten QUOTE SIGNED

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THIS WEEK I AM LISTING A SMALL BUT IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF OLYMPIC GAMES AUTOGRAPHS. CHECK MY OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE. Feedback is a huge issue for sellers. The new rules of ebay make the detailed feedback (the stars) as important as whether the feedback is positive or not. By giving a seller 1 or 2 stars you may cause him/her additional expenses on ebay fees of hundreds of dollars a month for a long period of time. Please contact me before leaving a less than perfect feedback to discuss any problem. In fairness to all interested bidders PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME TO END THIS AUCTION EARLY OFFERED HERE An ORIGINAL, NOT A COPY, NOR REPRODUCTION, low starting price, NO RESERVE AUCTION for a great content handwritten and inscribed SIGNED STATEMENT about his work all in his hand from HAMLIN GARLAND. " My books are all based upon my personal experience as a Western man. In a sense they are all history.' The gentleman who collected the autographs I am listing this week was both legally, and nearly totally, blind. He wrote complimentary letters to famous people he admired in various fields on a BRAILLE keyboard typewriter explaining his blindness and the machine which allowed him to type the letters. He would enclose a single quality watermarked leaf and ask the recipient to autograph it for him. The name and ID on the verso of each page was typed by the collector on this unique typewriter. Keep looking at my listings over the next few weeks and you will see references to his blindness, as in the William Howard Taft quote, and much more directly by some of the more famous signers. Because of the variety of people in different fields I have decided to split it up and give many present day collectors the opportunity to own individual autographs from this interesting collection. I purchased the collection from the son of the original collector over a decade ago. Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1860, the second of four children of Richard Garlin of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. The boy was named after Hannibal Hamlin, the candidate for vice-president under Abraham Lincoln. He lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing. He read diligently in the public library there. His first success came in 1891 with Main-Traveled Roads, a collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm. He serialized a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in McClure's Magazine before publishing it as a book in 1898. The same year, Garland traveled to the Yukon to witness the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899). He lived on a farm between Osage, and St. Ansgar, Iowa for quite some time. Many of his writings are based on this era of his life. A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short fiction, and essays. In 1917, he published his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border. The book's success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, for which Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. After two more volumes, Garland began a second series of memoirs based on his diary. Garland naturally became quite well known during his lifetime and had many friends in literary circles. He was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918. After moving to Hollywood, California, in 1929, he devoted his remaining years to investigating psychic phenomena, an enthusiasm he first undertook in 1891. In his final book, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939), he tried to defend such phenomena and prove the legitimacy of psychic mediums. IT'S WORTH A GOOGLE SEARCH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS INTERESTING MAN'S LIFE AND CAREER. Measures approximately 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches. YOU CAN ENLARGE THE IMAGE BY HO... read more

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