[Rarebooks] FS: Thornton Wilder Illegally Crossing Borders

[Charles Agvent]

WILDER, Thornton. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Hamden, CT, 31 July 
1972. A charming two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to William J. 
Sarno on both sides of his 6" x 6-7/8" Deepwood Drive stationery 
thanking him for his letter and generous words. In part: "You may be 
amused to learn that when you saw me at Cortina I was under a shadow. I 
discovered only on the bus from Venice to Cortina that my passport was 
several weeks invalid.... We crossed the border to Innsbruck by waving 
our passports boldly in the air.... So we crossed the border of 
Lichtenstein and Switzerland (said to be very rigorous in such matters) 
by sheer bluff and got the new passport in Zurich.... A friend of mine 
now 101 -- long a professor of Latin at the Univ. of Pennsylvania -- has 
kept young by his passion for collecting fossil shells. He has found (in 
quarries, railway cuttings, excavating for wells, etc.) several unknown 
to science-- They are recorded in the Smithsonian and named 'in 
perpetuity' after his successive wives." With the envelope addressed in 
Wilder's hand. Crease from folding, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine 
envelope. (#020609)        $850

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