[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Charles Olson Handwritten Letter on Black Mountain Stationery

[Charles Agvent]

OLSON, Charles. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) ON BLACK MOUNTAIN 
STATIONERY TO EDWARD MARSHALL and AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED TO MARSHALL. 
A 6-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Charles Ol--" by the poet Charles 
Olson to fellow poet Edward Marshall on 6 sheets of 3-3/4" x 5-1/2" 
BLACK MOUNTAIN REVIEW stationery, @185 words, dated 13 February 1957 
with a brief AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD, also to Marshall by Olson, SIGNED with 
a drawing of a face and postmarked 3 February 1959. In the letter Olson 
talks about having a bad month and his upcoming schedule of readings and 
lectures on "The Special View of Auden." Olson then asks specific favors 
of Marshall including "to take me off the hook if you possess copy of 
Tug-of-War (as you mush have heard by now, the young dogs here took the 
mss. from me--at my invitation--but didn't bring it back, or have yet 
sent it) BECOZ 3 I propose to have Black Mt. College publish it." In the 
postcard, with a Gloucester return address, Olson exclaims friendship 
along with an enigmatic statement apparently about George Washington's 
birthday with an expletive. Fine. (#011608)        $1,000.00

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