[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Tennessee Williams letter: "I returned from the mad-house hungry for a tiny bit of affection"

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine Tennessee Williams items in our inventory which can be 
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). n.p., 16 May 1970. 
SIGNED and dated as "10," his intimate signature. To Danny [Stirrup], an 
old friend in Key West who had worked on Williams's house there, in 
full: "I waited as long as I could for some word from you about the 
erection of the Jane Bowles Summer-house which I want to sit and 
meditate for a while in before I leave for my summer abroad from which I 
may not return like a swallow of Capistrano. And so last night, not 
having up till that point, heard any word from you, asked Fontis to put 
it up with a good carpenter and a very simple little Gothic, not 
Byzantine, design that we'd drawn at a bar-table. He will start on it 
Monday and the top estimate is $1700. which is below the amount that an 
experienced architect would or should accept but all I wish to expend on 
the project as it will serve only as room for bridge- playing and for 
solitary reflecting upon the madness of the world. I have not talked to 
anyone but you about the cause of the interruption in our long 
friendship. But now I will. It can be said very simply. I returned from 
the mad-house hungry for a tiny bit of affection, tenderness, sympathy, 
understanding, none of which were offered and they were as necessary to 
me as the air I breathe. Then, being a tiger, I turned, for tigers will 
turn on mortal adversaries at last. That's it and that's all. Forget me, 
Don Quixote, if you choose to, or remember me as a loyal and patient 
friend to those who are friends and I still believe you are one. The 
best of luck with your important project in Palm Beach. Love, 10." Some 
wrinkling and creasing, still Very Good. Superb content.   $2,000.00	


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