[Rarebooks] FS: William Carlos Williams Letter to Jack "Doctor Johnson Zen Master Magee of Innisfree" Micheline

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WILLIAMS,  William Carlos [Jack MICHELINE]. TYPED LETTER
        SIGNED  to Jack Micheline. Rutherford, NJ: 30 May 1958. Brief
        Typed Letter   SIGNED  by  Williams   to  Beat  writer   Jack
        Micheline.  In  full: "I am overwhelmed by my  correspondence
        and other  reading, I cannot take you on, as Pound says,  you
        must seek  your friends among the younger writers. I'll  file
        your poems  away  but you'll have to excuse me  from  reading
        them at  present."  One  of  the  younger  writers  Micheline
        sought,  and successfully so, was Jack Kerouac who wrote  the
        introduction  to  Micheline's first book, RIVER OF RED  WINE,
        published  in  1957,  referring to Micheline as  the  "Doctor
        Johnson  Zen  Master  Magee  of  Innisfree."  Several  minor
        corrections  to  the text in Williams's hand. Near Fine  with
        envelope.                                            $1500

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