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295
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(WRITERS.) Group of 5 letters Signed, by 20th-century authors, to various
recipients.Together 8 pages, 8vo or 4to. Most with the original envelope.
Vp, 1901-79
[600/900]
H. Rider Haggard. ALS, to “My dear S. Apperley,” “. . . [Y]ou should get hold of my last
book ‘Lysbeth’ I think it may interest you . . . .” Ditchingham, 4 July 1901.
Theodore Dreiser. ALS, to Edna Dexter, “[H]ow little you know of reality . . . .Truth? You
talk of that. . . . Go into the highways and the byways. Make an intensive study of one human
heart. . . .” NewYork, 29 April 1929.
H.L. Mencken. TLS, to Michael Kowan, “. . . I have just been going through Sherard’s
denunciation of the Harris life of Wilde. Sherard proves Harris’s inaccuracy over and over
again, but nevertheless my guess is that Harris’s account of Wilde comes somewhat closer to the
real man than Sherard’s.” Baltimore, 29 January 1937.
Rachel Carson.TLS, to Leslie J. Stanford, “. . . It is true that I had made a small beginning
on a book which I put aside to write
Silent Spring
and which I now hope to return to. I am a
slow writer however . . . .” Silver Spring, 11 February 1963.
Henry Miller. ALS, to Brenda Venus, “. . . I believe there were two questions: 1) How does
literature of today compare with that of yesterday? and 2) What do I think of contemporary
writers? As for No. 1— . . . they do not compare at all. . . . I can think of no contemporary
writers who can compare with Sherwood Anderson or Theodore Dreiser . . . . As for question
no. 2, frankly, aside from Isaac Singer and myself, I can think of no worth while American
writers. . . . .” [Marina del Rey], 1 May 1979.
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(WRITERS.) Group of 6 items Signed, by 20th-century writers: Lewis Mumford,
C.P. Snow, Upton Sinclair, Archibald MacLeish, and Henry Miller.Together 6 pages, 4to or
8vo; condition generally good.
Vp, 1922-60
[500/750]
Mumford. Typed Document Signed, contract with Boni & Liveright to publish “Beyond
Utopia.” 1922 * Snow.TLS, to the
New Republic
, discussing a possible article on Russia.
1960 * Sinclair.Two TLsS, “Sinclair,” to Horace Liveright. 1923 * MacLeish.TLS, to a an
Army Corporal. 1944 * Miller. ALS, extending an invitation to visit him in Paris.With the
original envelope. 1937.
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(WRITERS.) Group of 8 items Signed, by 20th-century writers, all but one to
Arthur Pell of Boni & Liveright. Format and condition vary.
Vp, 1919-80
[600/900]
John Reed. Check Endorsed, on verso of Boni & Liveright check for $49.41. Np, 11 July
1919 * Ford Maddox Ford. Two TLsS, “FMFord” or “Ford Maddox Ford,” each regarding
royalties and one also explaining that his work does not need to be copyrighted in Europe as he
is a British subject. Each 1 page, 4to. Paris, 24 February 1931; 24 November 32 * Waldo
Frank. Two items: Typed Manuscript Signed, 5-page foreword on Hart Crane; Brief TLS,
“Waldo,” transmitting “the Crane piece” and suggesting it be called “Foreword” rather than
“Introduction.” Together 6 pages, 4to or oblong 8vo. Truro, MA, 18 June 1957 * Lawrence
Ferlinghetti. Two TLsS, regarding the “status of copyrights relating to your books by Djuna
Barnes.” Each 1 page, small 8vo,“City Lights Books” stationery. 21 January; 15 March 1958
* GlenwayWestcott.ALS, to Gilbert Harrison. 3 pages, 4to. Rosemont, 27 April 1980.