![GREY, ZANE. 1872-1939. Autograph Letter Signed ("Zane"), 8 pp, recto only, 4to, Flower Point, Tahiti, June 18, [1933], to Dolly Grey,](http://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-12/21/8678594-30-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "GREY, ZANE. 1872-1939. Autograph Letter Signed (\"Zane\"), 8 pp, recto only, 4to, Flower Point, Tahiti, June 18, [1933], to Dolly Grey, Sold for US$ 375 inc. premium")
GREY, ZANE. 1872-1939.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Zane"), 8 pp, recto only, 4to, Flower Point, Tahiti, June 18, [1933], to Dolly Grey, on green lined paper, folding creases, little wear around edges and corners.
A substantial letter from a precarious period in Grey's life. Grey writes his wife about financial troubles and the difficulties of leaving Tahiti; the distress of his companion Wanda Williams ("she has given me to understand that she will quit me upon our return home"); changes to the stories "Knights of the Range" and "Pecos Smith, Texan"; work on a new novel about "Arizona, simple, elemental - the terrific truth of what the pioneer endured" which "progresses in a way to make me vastly hopeful"; business; the doings of their children; etc.
A substantial letter from a precarious period in Grey's life. Grey writes his wife about financial troubles and the difficulties of leaving Tahiti; the distress of his companion Wanda Williams ("she has given me to understand that she will quit me upon our return home"); changes to the stories "Knights of the Range" and "Pecos Smith, Texan"; work on a new novel about "Arizona, simple, elemental - the terrific truth of what the pioneer endured" which "progresses in a way to make me vastly hopeful"; business; the doings of their children; etc.
Sold for
US$ 375
inc. premium
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