1896
by Train, Arthur C.
1896. Manuscript of an Early Work by the Author of the Ephraim Tutt Novels [Manuscript]. Train, Arthur C. [1875-1945]. "William Stoughton." [Cambridge?, 1896]. 8 ff. 8" x 10" leaves, content to rectos. Light toning and soiling, minor folds, wear and chips to corners of a few leaves. Inkstamp of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine to head of first leaf, part-printed editorial note to its verso, corrections and notes by editor in a few places. Unrelated 1947 newspaper clipping about Train's will laid in. $750. * Train was a lawyer and a versatile, prolific and popular author, playwright and journalist. He is best known for a series of novels and articles featuring the shrewd New England Lawyer Ephraim Tutt. Our copy-edited manuscript of a biography of Stoughton [1631-1701], the Massachusetts magistrate and administrator, was published in the September 1896 issue of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (pp. 34-39). In 1896 Train was a few months past his graduation from Harvard College and a first-year student at Harvard Law School. His Stoughton piece appears to be his first post-graduate publication. The small number of editorial changes, all of them minor, shows that he was already a talented writer.
(Inventory #: 79906)