[Rarebooks] FS: Louise Bryant's Manuscript Will Written in Moscow

[Charles Agvent]

One of several spectacular John Reed items fromour new catalog--SUMMER 
MISCELLANY 2014--which contains 127 select items, all new arrivals, in a 
variety of fields. Here is a link to our illustrated pdf catalog on our 
website:
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(BRYANT, Louise). MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT: Draft of the Last Will and 
Testament of Louise Bryant SIGNED. [Moscow], (1922). First Edition. Two 
6-3/4" x 10-1/8" sheets written on the rectos only in pencil in a small 
hand and SIGNED within the text by Louise Bryant, the widow of John 
Reed, portrayed by Diane Keaton in the film REDS. Bryant wills to 
Lincoln Steffens and others "all of the books, writings and manuscripts 
of my deceased husband, John Reed, whether published or unpublished and 
all receipts and royalties therefrom, with full power to publish, 
republish, or sell the same outright, however, for the purposes 
following, to wit: All receipts and profits therefrom shall be donated 
to and used for defraying the expenses of the defense of persons charged 
with crimes and offenses [?] out of [?] and economic agitation and 
effort, whether under arrest or at liberty and convicted or unconvicted, 
and aiding the families of such persons." Bryant also instructs to have 
all of her and Reed's correspondence to be destroyed. An interesting and 
likely unique piece of history. Near Fine.

Louise Bryant was famously fictionalized in the film REDS by Diane 
Keaton with Warren Beatty as her husband, John Reed, and Jack Nicholson 
as her lover, Eugene O'Neill. (#017509)        $3,500.00

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