[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Letter by Journalist Joseph Alsop

[Charles Agvent]

ALSOP, Joseph. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Washington DC, 18 May 1983. 
Two-page letter SIGNED as "Joe" on his personal stationery to journalist 
Richard Tobin. In part: "It did me good to hear from you again, and I am 
delighted you liked the FDR book. (An odd thing: the only really 
successful book I have ever written but turned out in a couple of 
months, in fact in an interval of the last lap of very much harder work 
on my big scholarly book on the history of art collecting [THE RARE ART 
TRADITIONS: THE HISTORY OF ART COLLECTING AND ITS LINKED PHENOMENA 
WHEREVER THESE HAVE APPEARED], which took eighteen years to complete!)." 
Alsop discusses the loss of both living and dead friends. "All my 
contemporary men friends in Washington are dead, and the biggest blow of 
all was the loss of my brother Stewart eight years ago." A revealing 
letter by an influential journalist and top insider in Washington from 
1945 to the late 1960s, often in conjunction with his brother Stewart 
Alsop. Near Fine. (#020835)        $75

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/020835/joseph-alsop/typed-letter-signed-tls

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