[Rarebooks] FS: Archive of Letters from E. B. White to artist Walter King Stone

[Charles Agvent]

WHITE, E. B. ARCHIVE consisting of 1 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS), 1 
AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS), and 1 TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Fine, 
early letters to Cornell University professor and artist Walter King 
Stone SIGNED as "Andy" and "Andy White" from the author of CHARLOTTE'S 
WEB and STUART LITTLE. A one-page typed letter about a Stone painting, 
in part: "When the landlady puts on a violin record downstairs, I brush 
typewriters, manuscripts, soiled shirts, tobacco cans, and newspapers to 
one side, place my feet luxuriously upon the dresser, and gaze long and 
wistfully down your blue valley, and at your little snow-covered house 
with the two lights, and at your nice little stars above the lovely blue 
mountains. And I ponder imponderable thoughts, and dream of astounding 
adventures which come to me when I explore the valley, and climb the 
mountains." The two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED and dated 16 October on 
NEW YORKER stationery is likely from 1936 as it refers to an article 
White published in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, "You Can't Resettle Me? A 
Defense of New York City by a Stubborn Inhabitant" (SEP, Vol. CCIX, 10 
Oct. 1936). In part: "The only reaction I've gotten from Post readers so 
far is from a sad little woman who lives in Willow Street, Hoboken. She 
said it wouldn't take much to induce her to leave New York for the 
country. 'I got as far as Hempstead one time,' she said, 'and it was 
like heaven.'" Finally there is a Christmas card "from Katharine and 
Andy White" with a color photograph of a boy to the widow of Stone with 
a short but lovely note by White. Fine.               $2,000.00	

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