This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2024
[HOFFMANN, Professor (Angelo Lewis, 1839 – 1919)]. DELAND, Theodore (1873 – 1931). TLS to Professor Hoffmann, and two Advertisements. The letter dated April 4, 1914, and written on DeLand’s elaborate color letterhead and reading in part, “Dear Prof. Hoffman [sic]: I am sending you my catalogue … and the directions for my coming dollar deck. As soon as the deck is finished I will make you a present of one. It is my lifes [sic] work and makes me think back in years to the days when I spent so many happy hours reading Modern Magic etc.” SIGNED “Theodore L. Deland.” Accompanying the TLS are the Dollar Deck instructions, disbound but complete, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED in the upper margin of the first leaf, “To Prof. Hoffman from Theodore Deland of Philadelphia 4/4/14.” Sold together with: A DeLand Card Locator oversize postcard mailed to Hoffmann by DeLand in June of 1914.