[Rarebooks] FS: Margaret Mitchell Letter on Hemingway and GONE WITH THE WIND, the book and the movie

[Charles Agvent]

   MITCHELL, Margaret. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Atlanta, GA, 12 Nov. 
1937. Fine single-spaced one-page letter of @250 words 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 the New York Evening 
Post. Mitchell begins by stating that the day is going to be one of 
those days "when all hell busts loose" and that she is very interested 
in "the literary row about Hemingway." Mitchell then moves on to GONE 
WITH THE WIND, both the book and the movie which was under development 
at the time of the letter. Specifically she mentions the character of 
Belle Watling, the prostitute who had a longstanding relationship with 
Rhett Butler: "I have heard no more from Katharine Brown, and so, I do 
not know what they decided to do about Belle's accent. My modest and old 
fashioned family have become accustomed to anything in the last year and 
a half and, like the Queen in 'Alice in Wonderland,' get up every 
morning ready to believe six impossible things before breakfast. Even 
Father was convulsed at the idea of someone telephoning from New York to 
discover how the madam of a Confederate bordello talked." SIGNED 
"Margaret" in pencil 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 1936-1949, 
though many others to Brickell are. Normal creases from mailing, 
otherwise Fine.                                      $2,500.00	


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