[Rarebooks] FS: Tennessee Williams Letter with Fine Content

[Charles Agvent]

One of many fine Tennessee Williams items from our stock. /Tennessee 
Williams's/ /centenary/ /is celebrated in 2011/.

WILLIAMS, Tennessee. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) with a HOLOGRAPH 
ADDITION. New York, [6 Oct. 1981]. Two pages with envelope on Parker 
Meridien Hotel letterhead to Fred Martin of New Directions. In part: 
"Very regrettably Mitch Douglas didn't let you know that I was not 
releasing 'Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws' but holding it back for 
rewrites of a considerable nature and all quite essential. This play was 
written while I was quite ill in the sixties and the fact is 
embarrassingly [sic] evident in the text, especially as I read it in 
print. I'm afraid that everything about my professional relationship 
with Douglas was regrettable.... I am a slow and consientious [sic]  
writer if permitted to be. Not an electric rabbit at a dog race. Of 
course these misapprehensions are finally set right. I've done two 
verysions [sic] of 'Clothes' since the one thrown with such cavalier 
haste onto Broadway. SIGNED as "Tennessee." In holograph: "Please 
remember me to Jay [James Laughlin, founder of New Directions] who 
introduced me to the 'world of Letters.' I never want him to be ashamed 
of a work of mine that bears the N.D. imprimateur [sic]." And in another 
color ink and likely added at the last minute: "P.P.S. There is also a 
now definitive "Red Devil Battery Sign"-- a controversial but major 
work." Normal creases from mailing. Near Fine with wonderful content. 
         $2,500.00

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