[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Margaret Mitchell Letter

[Charles Agvent]

MITCHELL,  Margaret.  TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Atlanta,  GA:  12
Nov.  1937.  Fine  single-spaced  one-page letter  of  @250  words  on
Mitchell's  stationery  to  Herschel Brickell, a noted  book  reviewer
from  Mississippi  who  served  on the New York  Herald  Tribune  book
section  and  who, at the time of this correspondence, was a  reviewer
for  the  New York Evening Post. Mitchell begins by stating  that  the
day  is going to be one of those days "when all hell busts loose"  and
that  she  is very interested in "the literary row  about  Hemingway."
Mitchell  then  moves on to GONE WITH THE WIND, both the book and  the
movie  which  was  under  development  at  the  time  of  the  letter.
Specifically  she  mentions  the  character   of  Belle  Watling,  the
prostitute  who had a longstanding relationship with Rhett Butler:  "I
have  heard  no more from Katharine Brown, and so, I do not know  what
they  decided to do about Belle's accent. My modest and old  fashioned
family  have become accustomed to anything in the last year and a half
and,  like  the Queen in 'Alice in Wonderland,' get up  every  morning
ready  to believe six impossible things before breakfast. Even  Father
was  convulsed  at  the idea of someone telephoning from New  York  to
discover  how  the  madam of a Confederate  bordello  talked."  SIGNED
"Margaret"  in pencil by Mitchell. All of the letters to Brickell that
we  have seen were signed by Mitchell either as "Margaret" or as  "M,"
an  indication  of the personal relationship she had with him. Not  in
Richard  Harwell's  MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE  WIND"  LETTERS
1936-1949,  though  many others to Brickell are. Normal  creases  from
mailing, otherwise Fine.                                      $2500.00

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