One 3pp ALS from Sturgis to a cousin (dated Queen's Acre Windsor, 1917), enclosing an ink portrait of the recipient's mother done by Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG (1824 –1893). Sturgis is perhaps best known for his controversial novel "Tim, published in 1891. More

An original photographic postcard of Truman Capote taken by Van Vechten in 1948 after the release of Capote's Other Voices Other Rooms. The twenty-three year old Capote is posed in slacks and t-shirt in front of a theatrical backdrop of marionettes. On the verso, Van Vechten has penned a note to a friend in 1948 noting: Here is Truman Capote to help cure your impetigo...". Very good with very light edgewear, Van Vechten's blindstamp appears at lower right corner. (3.5" x 5 1/4"). The verso is unmarked. More