[Rarebooks] FS: Archive of early Letters by Sherwood Anderson to critic Llewellyn Jones

[Charles Agvent]

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of TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, a 
total of 90 items, many quite scarce and remarkable as well as revealing 
of the creative process and personal lives of the subjects.  It includes 
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Anderson, W. H. Auden (SOLD), Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer (SOLD), John 
Masefield (SOLD), John O'Hara, Clifford Odets, Maxwell Perkins, E. H. 
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ANDERSON,  Sherwood. ARCHIVE consisting of 2 TYPED LETTERS  SIGNED
(TLSs)  and  6 AUTOGRAPHED LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to  critic  Llewellyn
Jones.  1916-1924.  A  group of early letters, all but one  SIGNED  in
full  and  including  five envelopes, dating from 1916  to  1924  with
three  undated,  all to Llewellyn Jones, then literary editor  of  the
Chicago  Evening Post. The earliest letter, dated 27 July 1916, thanks
Jones  for  letting "Heck" [Ben Hecht] write a review of  an  Anderson
book,  likely  WINDY  MACPHERSON'S  SON,  his  first.  Another  letter
includes  a  cartoon cut from a newspaper with  Anderson's  suggestion
that Jones might have intended it to illustrate his article. In a two-
page  holograph  letter about his book MANY MARRIAGES, Anderson  notes
how  Jones "did perfectly catch the spirit in which it was done." In a
letter  postmarked 14 December 1924, Anderson thanks Jones for a "very
lovely  criticism  of my book.... More and more I [?] to think of  you
as  one  of  the solid writers of criticism in this  country."  In  an
undated  typed letter, Anderson comments on a visit from Carl Sandburg
and  the  poet's reaction to where Anderson lived. Good to  Near  Fine
                                                               $6000.00

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