MANTON MARBLE EDITOR AND THE NEW YORK WORLD (3 résultats)

Newspaper. Etat : Poor. 1st Edition. An original newspaper published out of No. 35 Park Row in New York City. A large newspaper containing eight pages, with each page measuring 15-3/4" by 23" - printed in very tiny letters, each page contains six lengthy columns. The contents include: IMPORTANT FROM TURKEY - Trouble Between the United States and the Turkish Government - Outrage on a United States Consul - Our Minister at Conitantinople [as spelled] Sends for an Iron-clad; AFFAIRS IN FRANCE (including Continued Serious Illness of Napoleon - His Right Leg Said to be Paralyzed); Prussia After the War (including The World Correspondent has an interview with Bismarck, and Obtains a Pass for Bohemia); Letter of Invitation from the Special Committee of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention, to be Held at Cleveland, Ohio, September 17 [to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher from Chas. [Charles] G. Halpine et al]; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Reply; editorial Mr. Beecher and the Cleveland Convention; editorial Secretary Stanton; THE PRESIDENT'S PROGRESS [Andrew Johnson] (including Grand Review of the State of New York by the President of the United States; ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPLE; One Hundred and Seventy-Six Miles of Bunting, Men and Women, Cheers and Speeches; Narrow Escape of the Presidential Party; The President's Reception Committee [list]); ANOTHER BANK DEFALCATION (including The Nassau Bank Victimized to the Extent of $100,000; ARREST OF THE PAYING TELLER [George H. Briggs]; All the Money Said to have been Lost in Gambling); FROM WASHINGTON; NEWS FROM PANAMA (including The Revolution in Chiriqui Still Progressing; Valparaiso Preparing for Another Attack by the Spaniards); Funeral of Dean Richmond, Batavia; Mysterious Murder in St. Louis - A Woman Killed in Bed With her Child in Her Arms - The Murderer Escapes (on the murder of the wife of David Steigler, with transcript of his Testimony); Terrific Storm in West Virginia - Two Persons Killed by Lightning - A Whole Family Drowned; The Highwayman of Utah (on Brigham Young). Condition: lightly age-browned and worn; periodic chips and short closed tears along edges (to blank margins only); newspaper was previously folded twice - the center where the two folds meet shows chipping and the loss of a few to several words per page (the vast majority of the text is present).

Newspaper. Etat : Fair. First Edition. An original newspaper published out of No. 35 Park Row in New York City. A large newspaper containing eight pages, with each page measuring 15-3/4" by 23" - printed in very tiny letters, each page contains six lengthy columns. Highlights include: column headline Battles In Cuba - From Our Own Correspondent, Havana, May 12 (with topics Authentic News - The Spaniards Defeated at Sabana Nueva; Severe Fight on the 3d Inst.; The Cubans Under General [Manuel de] Quesada 7,000 Strong - The Spaniards Under General Letona 3,500; The Insurgents Badly Armed; Timely Arrival of the Marquis of Santa Lucia on the Battlefield; Desertion to the Enemy; An Entire Battalion of Colored Volunteers Kill their Officers and Go Over to the Cubans; The Losses on Both Sides; Arrival of the Wounded in Havana); lengthy news report From Washington; Indian Matters; The City's Criminal Record (with topics A Threatening Letter Sent to Judge Cardozo; Murder of a City Marshal; A Prisoner Attempts to Commit Suicide in Court; Important Arrest for Forgery; Daring Robbery at Arnold, Constable & Co.'s Store); editorial Dangers of the Financial Situation - Breakers Ahead; The Girls of Ghent ("There has just been an explosion of women's rights in Belgium"); The Memphis Convention; The Paterson Races; Mining News; extensive and interesting classifieds; much more. Condition: pages age-browned and worn with a few small stains; two narrow chips to mid-page affecting a few words of text; a few edge chips, wrinkles, and closed tears (mostly to blank margins but affecting, at times, a few words of text). Still, in readable condition and quite rare.

2pp., on both sides of the lower half of a 4to leaf. The recto is numbered by Reade '2', indicating that the two pages constitute the second leaf of a letter. The text reads: '[.] therefore you will consent to do me a bare act of justice viz not to let that gentleman be my public critic in "the World." Of course I should be still more pleased if you would do me the honor to see the play yourself and pronounce upon it. However half a loaf is better than no bread. - If you will secure me the silence of that unfair detractor of mine in your columns I will be content: because in that case I shall have a chance of fair play. | Yrs vy trly | Charles Reade'.