[Rarebooks] FS: Willa Cather Letter

[Charles Agvent]

CATHER, Willa. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
Fine one-page letter  on  Cather's  monogrammed
printed  stationery dated 20 August [n.y.] and SIGNED by Cather at the
conclusion.  Addressed  to  Dr. [Henry Goddard] Leach, editor  of  THE
FORUM,  regarding  an  article that appeared on Cather's work  in  his
publication.  In full: "Thank you for replying to my telegram, which I
am  afraid was premature. I have just received from the Knopf office a
copy  of the estimate of my books published in the September  Forum. I
wish  I might know your personal opinion of the article before I write
you.  Sincerely  yours,  Willa Cather." A Cather scholar  informed  us
that  this  letter is almost certainly from 1931. Granville Hicks  had
an  article  in  the  FORUM in September of  that  year,  ostensibly a
review  of  SHADOWS  ON  THE  ROCK,  but  mentioning  other  works  in
explaining  "why she is and always has been a minor artist."  Cather's
displeasure  with the article is clear in the tone of this letter. Her
best  known  book, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, was  serialized  in
the  very  same  magazine from January through June in  1927.  Folding
crease. Near Fine                                             $3500.00


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