Dylan, Bob | "I KNOW WOODY | I KNOW WOODY | He says I sing right"

Dylan, Bob

Three autograph postcards and one autograph letter. [Gary, Indiana and New York City: 1961]

Autograph postcard (81 x 138 mm). Handwritten in blue ink recto and verso, postmarked Gary, Indiana 25 January 1961, brown cardstock with red and blue printed border on recto; light wear at edges, light smudging. — Autograph postcard (88 x 140 mm). Handwritten in pencil on recto, photographic portrait of Woody Guthrie on verso, postmarked New York, N.Y. 26 January 1961; old vertical fold, closed tear along fold at upper margin, creases, coffee ring to right margin. — Autograph postcard, signed (88 x 140 mm). Handwritten in pencil on recto, photographic portrait of Woody Guthrie on verso, postmarked New York, N.Y. 12 February 1961; overall worn with smudging and soiling, old folds and creases, two closed marginal tears, upper right corner and lower left corner uniformly clipped. — Autograph letter signed (278 x 215 mm). Handwritten on recto in blue ink on yellow paper, verso mimeographed in black; three old folds, a few very short closed marginal tears, some light soiling, creases.

REFERENCE

Heylin, Clinton. Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. New York: William Morrow, 2001; Scaduto, Anthony. Bob Dylan: A Biography [5th edition]. New York: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001

PROVENANCE

Gretel Pelto, thence by descent