[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Robert Frost letter

[Charles Agvent]

FROST,  Robert. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. South Shaftsbury, VT:  28
Sept.  1930.  On both sides of a 6-3/4" by 5" sheet of white paper  to
Theodore  Fisher,  Frost's  only  lecture agent. In  full:  "Dear  Mr.
Fisher:  When  you first wrote my proposal for a tour in  1932  looked
too  far off to be taken seriously. So I gave up all idea of the boast
for  the  time being and let myself in for a number of  things  that I
don't  see  how I can get out of now. I'm not free till  October  1932
and  I  suppose  there would be no sense in looking for  pleasure  out
there  in  the early winter. I should want to show my native state  to
my  wife at it's [sic] best. [Frost was born in San Francisco.] I have
made  no engagements for October November December of 1932 nor January
February  March of 1933. But 1933 begins to sound too ridiculously far
away  again.  I  guess you had better give me up  as  unamenable.  I'm
sorry.  It's too bad we can't get together on what we both would like.
You  see the trouble with me is I take engagements in lumps (like  the
course  I'm  giving at the New School of Social Research and  like  my
three  months a year at Amherst College) and these seem to take  shape
a  good  way  ahead. Thanks just the same for your  interest."  SIGNED
"Sincerely  yours  Robert Frost." Unpublished and likely unique as  we
were  unable  to  find  any other letter to Fisher,  though  a  letter
mentioning  Fisher  to  Louis Untermeyer dated almost exactly  a  year
after  this  is in THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST. One  sentence
from  that  letter is revealing: "If I have to make a  really  western
tour,  someone  will have to recommend a better agent than that  man."
Fine and scarce.                                              $5000.00

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