[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Margaret Mitchell Letter: "Even as Sherman's hordes struck at the gates of Atlanta...."

[Charles Agvent]

MITCHELL, Margaret. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Atlanta, GA, 11 July 
1938. Fine single-spaced 2-1/2-page letter of @800 words with an 18-word 
holograph postscript 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 how 
happy she is to be back home: "One of the most welcome sights I ever saw 
was the bright blaze of the mid-afternoon Georgia sun.... I must be like 
Georgia cotton--need red dirt and hot, dry weather." She also writes a 
poignant paragraph about her husband staying behind to comfort a friend 
who had just lost his wife: "I can't help wondering how people manage to 
live through such things." She concludes with her disgust at being 
famous: "Even as Sherman's hordes struck at the gates of Atlanta in a 
long-past July, so do the hordes of summer visitors invade us this 
month.... Father summed it up when he remarked on how strange it was 
that there were millions of people anxious to go where they were not 
wanted and were not invited." Her manuscript postscript mentions how she 
lost her copyright case in the Dutch court and is appealing. SIGNED 
"Margaret" in ink 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, though many 
others to Brickell are. Normal mailing creases. Fine with the original 
typed envelope.. 		$3,000.00

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