HENRY VAN DYKE JR.

Vintage Autograph

Autograph letter, 2 pages, on bifold leaf

headed Avalon, Princeton, New Jersey

November 5, 1901

To Miss Eliz Dodge

In part: "It was like you to send my book to Mr. Clemens 

and then to send his charming note to me ... / Give your 

copy of "The Ruling Passion" to some body and ... keep 

the one I am sending to you today ... / I sent you back 

Mr. Clemens' note..."

Signed: "Henry Van Dyke"

Condition: very good, old folds

Henry van Dyke Jr was an American author, educator, diplomat

and Presbyterian clergyman. 

President Woodrow Wilson appointed him minister to the 

Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913, just prior to the start of 

World War I. 

A graduate of Princeton University where he served as a professor

of English literature between 1899-1923. 

Chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 

"The Book of Common Worship of 1906". 

Among his most noted writings are "The Other Wise Man" (1896)

and "The First Christmas Tree" (1897). 

Van Dyke officiated at Mark Twain's funeral April 23, 1910.

 

Born: 1852, Germantown, Pennsylvania; died: 1933, Princeton, New Jersey.