[Rarebooks] FS: Two Early Thornton Wilder SIGNED Handwritten Letters

[Charles Agvent]

WILDER, Thornton. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs). Hamden, CT, 1930 & 
1935. Two early AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to Henzie Browne, the 
wife of British theater director E. Martin Browne on 5 total pages, 
5-3/4" x 8-1/2" and 6" x 8", dated 20 June 1930 and 11 June 1935. The 
earlier handwritten letter, in full: "Indeed I am very happy that you 
did write me your generous and encouraging letter. And I’m very glad 
that you were not disappointed in the book at that particular time: I’ve 
taken potluck at ship’s libraries many times and only once had a real 
deck-chair treat = Thomas Mann’s BUDDENBROOKS. I shall think of you two 
often again this summer, for I shall be at Peterboro from July 10 - Aug 
10. Trying to write some plays. I hope some summer we can all meet again 
(with Christopher too) on that hill. Please give my regards to Mr. Brown 
and again accept my sincere thanks. Sincerely yours Thornton Wilder." In 
the second letter, Wilder comments on T. S. Eliot’s plays and the 
impoverishment of commercial theatre. In full: "Indeed I remember you 
very well, and it was a great pleasure to receive your generous word 
about my book. It was a pleasure to know also that you have so large a 
part in a venture of such importance as the production of Mr. Eliot’s 
plays. I should like to think that those plays will some day be seen to 
have had a large part in the renaissance of a theatre with real 
subject-matter. The commercial theatre grows more and more impoverished 
in vitality and it is just such works as Mr. Eliot’s and yours that may 
save it. Please give my regards to Mr. Browne, and accept my thanks 
again for the kind impulse that led you to write me. Sincerely yours 
Thornton Wilder." E. Martin Browne collaborated for many years with T. 
S. Eliot and was the first producer of many of Eliot’s plays, including 
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL. Creases from folding, otherwise Fine. (#021357) 
$1,250

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