Charles W. Chesnutt to The Standard Book Company, 9 March 1922
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March 9, 1922.
The Standard Book Company,
118-120 East 25th Street,
New York City.
Dear Sirs:
Please send me by parcel post, at above address, the following list of books listed in your List No. 115:
| Renaissance (The) by Walter Pater,1 | $0.80 |
| Rossetti's Poems,2 | 0.60 |
| Estimated postage on the Rosetti, | 0.14 |
| $1.54 |
I enclose herewith my check for $1.54, which includes the parcel post rate on the Rossetti, 1 1/2 pounds, in the 4th Zone. Since "The Renaissance" is marked "Special,Postpaid", I do not send any postage for it.
If I have n't remitted enough postage, kindly advise me and I will send the rest.
Yours very truly, CWC/FLCorrespondent: The mail-order Standard Book Company was operated by Harry B. Banks in the early 1920s.
1. Walter Pater (1839–1894) was a well-known nineteenth-century British critic of art and literature; his best-known work is a collection of essays first published in 1873 that was later retitled The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (revised 1877, 1888, and 1893). [back]
2. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was a British poet and visual artist, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who often paired his poems with paintings. His collection entitled Poems was first published in 1870; a revised edition came out in 1881. His poetry was reprinted throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [back]
