[Rarebooks] Edith Wharton letters

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>>Wharton (Edith)
>>
>>
>>1)         “Cher amis
ALS on  blue stationery, 
>>“Jean Marie / St Brice ­ Sous ­ Forêt (S&O) / 
>>Gare Sarcelles / Teléphone: St Brice 12” , 1 
>>p  (address verso).  [ca 1924].   Left edge 
>>tabbed with white cloth.  27 
>>Octobre.  Addressed to Monsieur Paul Bourget / 
>>l’Academie Francaise / 20 rue Barbet de Jouy / 
>>Paris.   Ca 125 words, last portion 
>>cross-written.    In French.  Signed “Edith”.
>>
>>2)         ALS, 2pp, on blue stationery 
>>imprinted “Sainte-Claire du Chateau / Hyères 
>>(var) / Tél 2-29.”   [ca 1924]. Ca 125 words. 
>>Edged with white cloth. To her oldest dearest 
>>friend Minnie Bourget. Of Bessy Lodge, Paul, Lady Colefax
.”yrs ever / Edith”
>>
>>
>>3)         ALS in French, on blue stationery 
>>imprinted “Sainte-Claire du Chateau / Hyères 
>>(var) / Tél 2-29.”   1p.  April 8, 1924.  Ca, 
>>95 words, “Cher ami” - signed “Yrs ever affly / 
>>Edith”.   With a nice allusion to the physics 
>>phenomenon “Crook’s tube” [a bulb with all the 
>>air pumped out] applied to “de la nouvelle [?] literature genre.”




>>“I shall never forget Minnie Bourget as I first 
>>saw her
..I used to call her the ‘Tanagra 
>>Madonna’
..I have never known anyone like her 
>>and can hardly imagine any one more unlike 
>>myself; yet from our very first meeting a 
>>deep-down understanding established itself 
>>between us” ­ Wharton, A BACKWARD GLANCE


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