[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Intimate Tennessee Williams Letter Attractively Framed

[Charles Agvent]

WILLIAMS, Tennessee. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) on His Breakdown and 
Turning to Film as a Medium of Expression. [St. Louis, MO], 15 November 
1969. SIGNED and dated as "10," his intimate signature, on an 8-12" x 
9-1/2" sheet of paper, matted and framed with the original mailing 
envelope and a photo of Williams to an overall size of . To Danny 
[Stirrup], an old friend in Key West who had worked on Williams's house 
there, sent from Barnes Hospital where Williams was recovering from a 
mental breakdown. In part: "The mental fog in which I've been existing 
the past couple of years has lifted away, but there are still nervous 
and physical debilities.... The doctors are amazed at my mental 
rehabilitation which was accomplished without shock treatments. I don't 
suppose anyone but Bill knows what an awful shape I was in. The last 
thing I clearly remember about the period in Key West before I came up 
here was getting up a 2 A.M. and spilling a Silex of boiling water on my 
shoulder. The rest is practically blank." Williams mentions how he won't 
be able to travel to New York for the revival of CAMINO REAL and how he 
dreads his brother Dakin flying to Key West with him: "I can't help 
associating his with being locked up, especially those three weeks in 
the acute ward which was a regular snake pit. Oh, I've got lots of 
material for something, some medium of expression, I think probably a 
film-script. The stage isn't big enough. The theme will be panic, the 
history of a man in panic. I have been studying film-technique. My 
bibliographer Andreas Brown owns the Gotham Book Mart in New York and he 
has been sending published film-scripts to me. The spacial range and 
fluidity of film is an exciting thing to consider." Toned and soiled, 
with a few small holes (not affecting text) and creases. Very Good in an 
attractive presentation. (#021008)        $1,500

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