AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AMs) From THE WATER WITCH

[1828]. Manuscript. A few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very Good. Unsigned handwritten fragment of his working draft of this novel about the abduction of a woman by a pirate. Two pages in dark ink in his small hand, approximately 600 words, on both sides of an 8" x 3-1/4" sheet. With a separate card SIGNED by the author's daughter, also an author, Susan Fenimore Cooper, dated Aug. 1889 and stating: "From the 'Water-Witch,' written at the 'Casa Tasso,' Sorrento, in 1828." Cooper manuscript material is scarce in the trade.