[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Letters about a painting & NYC from the author of CHARLOTTE'S WEB and STUART LITTLE

[Charles Agvent]

One of about 90 wonderful items, including a number of archives, 
contained in our new internet-only Catalogue--20TH CENTURY LITERARY 
MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS--scheduled to appear on our 
website late Tuesday afternoon.

WHITE,  E.  B. ARCHIVE consisting of 1 AUTOGRAPHED  LETTER  SIGNED
(ALS),  1  AUTOGRAPH  NOTE  SIGNED (ANS), and 1  TYPED  LETTER  SIGNED
(TLS).  Fine, early letters to Cornell University professor and artist
Walter  King  Stone SIGNED as "Andy" and "Andy White" from the  author
of  CHARLOTTE'S WEB and STUART LITTLE. A one-page typed letter about a
Stone  painting,  in part: "When the landlady puts on a violin  record
downstairs,  I brush typewriters, manuscripts, soiled shirts,  tobacco
cans,  and  newspapers to one side, place my feet luxuriously upon  the
dresser,  and  gaze long and wistfully down your blue valley,  and  at
your  little snow-covered house with the two lights, and at your  nice
little   stars  above  the  lovely   blue  mountains.  And  I   ponder
imponderable  thoughts, and dream of astounding adventures which  come
to  me  when  I  explore the valley, and  climb  the  mountains."  The
two-page  AUTOGRAPH  LETTER SIGNED and dated 16 October on NEW  YORKER
stationery  is  likely  from  1936 as it refers to  an  article  White
published  in  THE  SATURDAY EVENING POST, "You Can't  Resettle  Me? A
Defense of  New York City by a Stubborn Inhabitant" (Sept., Vol.  CCIX,
10  Oct.  1936).  In part: "The only reaction I've  gotten  from  Post
readers  so far is from a sad little woman who lives in Willow Street,
Hoboken.  She  said it wouldn't take much to induce her to  leave  New
York  for the country. 'I got as far as Hempstead one time,' she said,
'and  it  was like heaven.'" Finally there is a Christmas  card  "from
Katharine  and  Andy  White" with a color photograph of a boy  to  the
widow of Stone with a short but lovely note by White. Fine    $2000.00

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