Book Description

Seven letters, some autograph, some typed, from Edward Everett Hale, ranging in date from 1884 to 1909; and one letter from Cosmpolitan editor E.D. Walker to Hale, dated January 19, 1889, a little over a year before Walker's death. Hale's letters are addressed to a Mr. Stedman (April 15, 1884), Mr. O'Reilly (November 5, 1887), Mr. McCorkle (Nov. 8, 1890), Mr. Parsons (September 12, 1898), Pierce (April 5, 1905), and Mr. Olcott (April 24, 1905). The letter to Olcott describes a meeting at Cambridge at which Theodore Roosevelt made his first poblic speech.