[Rarebooks] FS: Homesick Author of THE VIRGINIANS Writes to His Son From France

[Charles Agvent]

WISTER, Owen. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his Son. Vichy, 1 July 
1924. A 3-1/2 page letter on one sheet of Grande Bretagne & Queen's 
Hotel stationery folded in half SIGNED with his initials. In part: 
"Dearest Boy: Yours of June 16th was here with other mail waiting for me 
on my arrival from Angouleme this afternoon. If my farewell telegram 
made you homesick, your letter and one from Marina have made me homesick 
-- which I've been from the start. Don't, however, let this discourage 
you from writing.... I had seen Angouleme before, but always just as I 
was going into or coming out of a tunnel. It's on a high hill and is not 
an interesting town. But all round it within a circle of 20 miles are a 
dozen or more perfectly charming little churches of the 11th and 12th 
century -- Romanesque -- but very peculiar with domes. It's ... somehow 
a result of Eastern influence.... Round Angouleme are lots and lots of 
vineyards. Not wine but cognac is made from them. Cognac the place isn't 
very far off.... Goodnight. No draft has come yet. I shall end it. Your 
devoted Daddy, O.W." With the original transmittal envelope addressed by 
Wister to his son, Owen J. Wister. Slight tear at the fold. Near Fine. 
(#020032)        $350

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