Scribner's Bookstore Was the Apple Flagship of Its Day, a Century Ago - NYTimes.com
Source: housingworksbookstoreBut it was Royal Cortissoz, the art critic for The New York Tribune, who proved to be the most colorful in his demands as a customer [of the Scribner’s retail store]. Writing to Mr. Safford on June 13, 1911, for a set of Robert Louis Stevenson’s newly published letters, he concluded:
If you do not send them to me, to round out my little edition of Stevenson, I will haunt you in the shape of a rattlesnake with the voice of a tiger, and I will steadily, for the next 18 years, put spiders in your tea!! So there!!!
Respectfully yours,
Royal Cortissoz.
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Excuse me while I change the signature on my outgoing emails.
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Oh how I love this building (and Royal Cortissoz). I pass it every morning on the way to work and find it a bit too...
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