[Rarebooks] FS: Fine, Intimate Tennessee Williams Letter: "Then, being a tiger, I turned, for tigers will turn on mortal adversaries at last."
Charles Agvent
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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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