[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Robert Frost letter to his lecture agent

[Charles Agvent]

FROST, Robert AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
South Shaftsbury, VT 28 Sept. 1930 On both sides of a 6-3/4" by 5" sheet of 
white paper to Theodore Fisher, Frost's one and only lecture agent. In full: 
"Dear Mr. Fisher: When you first wrote my proposal for a tour in 1932 looked too 
far off to be taken seriously. So I gave up all idea of the boast for the time 
being and let myself in for a number of things that I don't see how I can get 
out of now. I'm not free till October 1932 and I suppose there would be no sense 
in looking for pleasure out there in the early winter. I should want to show my 
native state to my wife at it's best. [Frost was born in San Francisco.] I have 
made no engagements for October November December of 1932 nor January February 
March of 1933. But 1933 begins to sound too ridiculously far away again. I guess 
you had better give me up as unamenable. I'm sorry. It's too bad we can't get 
together on what we both would like. You see the trouble with me is I take 
engagements in lumps (like the course I'm giving at the New School of Social 
Research and like my three months a year at Amherst College) and these seem to 
take shape a good way ahead. Thanks just the same for your interest." SIGNED 
"Sincerely yours Robert Frost." Unpublished and likely unique as we were unable 
to find any other letter to Fisher, though a letter mentioning Fisher to Louis 
Untermeyer dated almost exactly a year after this is found in THE SELECTED 
LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST. One sentence from that letter is revealing: "If I have 
to make a really western tour, someone will have to recommend a better agent 
than that man." Fine and scarce.    $5,000.00
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