[Rarebooks] FS: Margaret Mitchell Letter

[Charles Agvent]

MITCHELL, Margaret TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
Atlanta, GA 20 June 1938 Fine single-spaced two-page letter of @650 words with 
several manuscript corrections 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 
theNew York Evening Post. His review of Mitchell's book, written before he 
became a close friend of hers, was one of the more perceptive to appear drawing 
a parallel between the lives of Scarlett O'Hara and the city of Atlanta, the 
only major review to do so. Mitchell mentions a visit with a poet, Agnes 
Kendrick Gray, and encloses a three-page typed poem SIGNED by Gray. Mentions 
another author, Willie Ethridge, in a similar situation to hers: "The book has 
gone into a second edition, so Mr. Latham tells me. Despite Willie's disclaimer 
in the front of the book and her oft-repeated declaration that she made up every 
character and incident, Macon, Georgia, responds unanimously, 'Oh yeah!' I hope 
Willie can go back to visit there some day." Mitchell adds a paragraph about the 
poor health of Marjorie K. Rawlings: "It is a downright shame that she should be 
ill at this of all times, when 'The Yearling' is doing so well...." SIGNED "M" 
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, though many others to Brickell are. Normal mailing 
creases. Fine with the original typed envelope.   $2000.00
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