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“GIVETEN LITTLE NIGGERS A NEW LEASE OF LIFE”
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA. Autograph Letter Signed, “Agatha,” to “Dear Bertie,”
assenting to his plan concerning her book,
Ten Little Niggers
[later renamed
And Then There
Were None
]. 1
1
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2
pages, square 8vo, personal stationery, with integral blank; folds.
Wallingford, 29 June [1939-76]
[700/1,000]
“
. . . I think it would be fun to give Ten Little Niggers a new lease of life! I don’t know what
practical difficulties there are, or if it ‘dates.’ Anyway talk it over with Edmund Cork, because
he always arranges all these things & knows far more about all my affairs than I do! . . .”
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COLLINS, WILKIE. Autograph Letter Signed, to Charles H. Higbee, acknowl-
edging receipt of payment for the reading Collins performed at Salem last Friday. 1 page,
8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds. (MRS)
Boston, 31 January 1874
[350/500]
FROMTHE POET’S MOTHER
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(CRANE, HART.) CRANE, GRACE HART. Group of 5 Autograph Letters
Signed, to the President of Liveright Publishing Arthur Pell, concerning publishing rights
to Hart Crane’s works, royalties, advance copies, inquiring about her son’s place in litera-
ture, complaining of misinformation about Hart, &c. Together 12 pages, 4to or 8vo; one
letter in pencil.
Vp, 1938-46
[300/400]
30 July 1945: “. . .There is one other thing that I would like your opinion on, and that is
Hart’s place in American Poetry. Is he losing ground? I so seldom see any references to his work
any more in the Reviews. . . .”
3 August 1945: “. . . I never was satisfied with Horton’s Life of Hart. It was too morbid and
sensational—and left one with the feeling that Hart was completely morbid and gloomy—
which . . . he was not.
“
Someday I would like to have some one who really knew Hart and loved him write his life. . . .”
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