[Rarebooks] F/S Gorham Munson Autographed Letter Signed Regarding Book Reviews

[Garry R Austin]

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Munson, Gotham B. Autographed Letter, Signed, April 2, 1926; One page to 
a Mr. Cate. The letter measures 8.5" x 11", it is tipped on to a piece  
of gray backing paper. The right edge is chipped with very minor loss.  
the paper is toned and brittle.

Munson is writing Cates regarding reviews; Mason's Creative Freedom, 
Waldo Frank's Virgin Spain and a book by Toomer?, Values & Fictions. He 
has read it in manuscript, "one of the truest psychological records our 
era has produced. But who will publish it"

Gorham was born in Amityville, New York. He received his B.A. degree in 
1917 from Wesleyan University, where he became a member of Delta Kappa 
Epsilon. He married Elizabeth Hurwitz on April 2, 1921, in Brooklyn. 
Gorham died on August 15, 1969 at Hartford, Connecticut, and is buried 
in Mountain View Cemetery in Camden, Maine.
Gorham became a part of the Greenwich Village scene of avant-garde 
writers. In 1922 he founded and edited, with Matthew Josephson (August 
1922-January 1923) and Kenneth Burke (January--September 1923) as 
co-editors, the eight issues of the literary review Secession (spring 
1922- April 1924). Its contributors included Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, 
E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams 
and Yvor Winters.
He joined the faculty of The New School in 1927 and spent the remainder 
of his career as an academic.
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