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Kate Douglas Wiggin – author of children’s stories and composer. Autograph letter signed on personal stationery, one page on a 5 x 8 bifolium sheet. She accepts an offer of tickets to the play The Basker. She didn’t accept the offer too soon: The Basker had a short Broadway run of just two months at the Empire Theatre. The play was written by British playwright Emile Clifford. Believing her work would be more widely accepted if written by a man she adopted the pen name of Clifford Mills.
Wiggin’s heavy black ink provides nice contrast against tan or beige paper. She signs with her later married name Kate Douglas Riggs, although professionally she wrote under her own name of Wiggin. Her most famous work was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Nov. 28, 1916
Dear Mr. Thomas:
I will call up your office (if I can find it) tomorrow, Wednesday morning & see if it is convenient for you to give us seats for the Basker in the evening, as you so kindly suggested.
Sincerely,
Kate Douglas Riggs
Kate Douglas Wiggin – author of children’s stories and composer. Autograph letter signed on personal stationery, one page on a 5 x 8 bifolium sheet. She accepts an offer of tickets to the play The Basker. She didn’t accept the offer too soon: The Basker had a short Broadway run of just two months at the Empire Theatre. The play was written by British playwright Emile Clifford. Believing her work would be more widely accepted if written by a man she adopted the pen name of Clifford Mills.
Wiggin’s heavy black ink provides nice contrast against tan or beige paper. She signs with her later married name Kate Douglas Riggs, although professionally she wrote under her own name of Wiggin. Her most famous work was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Nov. 28, 1916
Dear Mr. Thomas:
I will call up your office (if I can find it) tomorrow, Wednesday morning & see if it is convenient for you to give us seats for the Basker in the evening, as you so kindly suggested.
Sincerely,
Kate Douglas Riggs