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Appreciating John Lukacs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1992

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* The historian informs me that he does not make beelines for what in the trade is known as A.L.S.'s (autograph letters signed). This opposed to mere A.S.'s (autograph signed). Every so often, he relates, he treats himself to a purchase, although he has done so less lately. He makes many of his purchases from catalogs sent by autograph letter dealers. And there is a trick here. Often, although not always, American A.L.S.'s are somewhat cheaper when bought from, say, a French catalog, unless they are movie personalities. Conversely he bought a Guizot and a Chicherin in Philadelphia, for two dollars each, the dealer not knowing who they were