Typed Letter Signed

MORGAN, Angela

About this Item

One page on author's embossed letterhead ("Angela Morgan Studio."). Folded for mailing else fine, with interesting content about the author's attempts to keep her work in circulation. Dated Philadelphia, March 14, 1933, to "My dear Mrs. Sprague." The letter begins, "My I take this opportunity to thank you for your prompt and generous response to my recent letter explaining the condition affecting my volumes of verse. I think you are most kind to co-operate with me in my efforts to salvage these books, and am glad to report that your swift reply has helped to avert the immediate fate which threatened them. I have been able to convince my publishers that there is a call for my work. I am greatly heartened by the way [my friends] have rallied to my cause. Gratefully and sincerely yours, [signed] Angela." and inscribed beneath, in Angela Morgan's ink holograph: "Love to the Sprague family, and many, many thanks!" Poet and journalist Angela Morgan (circa 1875 - 1957), was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi to a Quaker father and a mixed-race mother who was a teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau in Mississippi, and who was was born to a mulatto father, and a white mother. Her father eventually became a prospector in Colorado and died in Denver in 1922. Morgan began her working career along with her sisters as musical performers (The Morgan Sisters), and as a reporter. In 1915, with the assistance of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, she found an audience for her collection of poems, 'Battle Cry of the Mothers,' and she also was a delegate to the International Congress of Women, at the Hague.

Seller Inventory # 521643

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Typed Letter Signed
• Binding: Unbound
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)