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Going home after a century, a U.S. writer's library A $2.6 million deal for Wharton estate

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20051216
Author:Alan Cowell

Alan Cowell
International Herald Tribune
12-16-2005
In an English house in this small Yorkshire village, a defining moment in American letters unfolded, rounding a circle begun a century ago when Edith Wharton, the writer, packed up and left the United States to live in France.With a toast of champagne and a lunch of roast pheasant (shot by the host himself), George Ramsden, a British bookseller in a pinstripe suit, signed a $2.6 million agreement Monday to sell the 2,600-volume Edith Wharton library to the custodians of the Mount, the writer's estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, which she ...

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