Lot 54: COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851). Autograph manuscript signed (\J. Fenimo

COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851). Autograph manuscript signed (\J. Fenimore Cooper\), Paris, 9 April 1827.\r
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One page, 162 x 114mm. \r
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On Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison : in an apparently unpublished fragment, the author best-known for his frontier novels writes of the storied meeting between Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and General William Henry Harrison at Vincennes in August 1810. Cooper describes Tecumseh's manner—he declined a stool and instead \seated himself, with dignity, on the ground\—and his 5 October 1813 death. Signed autograph manuscripts from Cooper are scarce; ABPC records only three at auction in the last thirty years.
, Paris, April 1827,