[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Charles Olson Black Mountain Letter and Postcard to Edward Marshall

[Charles Agvent]

OLSON,  Charles. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) ON  BLACK  MOUNTAIN
STATIONERY  TO  EDWARD  MARSHALL  and  AUTOGRAPH  POSTCARD  SIGNED  TO
MARSHALL.  1957  &  1959. A 6-page AUTOGRAPH  LETTER  SIGNED  "Charles
Ol--"  by  the poet Charles Olson to fellow poet Edward Marshall  on 6
sheets  of  3-3/4"  x 5-1/2" BLACK MOUNTAIN  REVIEW  stationery,  @185
words,  dated  13 February 1957 with a brief AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD,  also
to  Marshall by Olson, SIGNED with a drawing of a face and  postmarked
3  February  1959. In the letter Olson talks about having a bad  month
and  his  upcoming schedule of readings and lectures on  "The  Special
View  of Auden." Olson then asks specific favors of Marshall including
"to  take  me off the hook if you possess copy of Tug-of-War  (as  you
mush  have heard by now, the young dogs here took the mss. from me--at
my  invitation--but didn't bring it back, or have yet sent it) BECOZ 3
I  propose  to  have Black Mt. College publish it." In  the  postcard,
with  a  Gloucester  return address, Olson exclaims  friendship  along
with  an  enigmatic  statement apparently  about  George  Washington's
birthday with an expletive. Fine                              $1000.00

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