Whimsical printed stock letter to 'Dear Friend', in the form of a facsimile of a typed letter, with facsimile of Hubbard's signature, conferring on the recipient Life Membership of the American Academy of Immortals.

Author: 
Elbert Hubbard [The Roycrofters]
Publication details: 
Dated 17 February 1904. Letterhead of The Roycrofters, East Aurora, Erie County, New York.
£56.00
SKU: 8905

12mo, 2 pp. In bifolium. On yellow paper. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with slight traces on the second leaf from the mounting of the letter. An amusing and characteristic piece of Roycroft ephemera. The letterhead describes 'The Roycrofters' as 'Makers of de luxe books, hand-made furniture and ornamental iron work. Printers and publishers of the Philistine and Little Journeys'. The recipient's 'remittance' makes him 'a Life Member of the American Academy of Immortals', and his name is 'now properly enrolled on the Great Roster and the Choice Stuff will go forward every little while for Ninety-nine years, but no longer'. Asks the recipient to 'please hand out enclosed circulars to the Unregenerate and yours will be the Sweet Satisfaction of passing along a Good Thing.'