[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Richard Adams Handwritten Letter discussing WATERSHIP DOWN, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $500 NET

ADAMS, Richard. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) with archive of related 
materials. Mountain View, CA, 5 Jan. 1982. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED of 
4 pages. About personal matters but primarily concerned with making 
corrections in an interview eventually published in the Webster Review 
in 1985. Mentions Kipling, Dickens, Trollope, and others, as well as his 
being president of the British Royal Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. Regarding his WATERSHIP DOWN and a character from De 
la Mare's THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS, Adams says, "Nod & Fiver are similar 
in remaining weak, but in developing authority as their story develops. 
I did not say that Fiver's vision of man derived from the Nod-Andy 
Battle episode...." Along with a copy of the magazine containing the 
interview, copies of the interviewer's letters to Adams, and two copies 
of the manuscript of the interview--one the final copy and the other 
with some questions and answers not used in the final version. Crease 
marks from folding. With original envelope. Near Fine. (#005012) $650.00

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