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A Margaret Mitchell autograph letter signed pertaining to Gone With the Wind
10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los AngelesUS$1,300 - US$2,000
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A Margaret Mitchell autograph letter signed pertaining to Gone With the Wind
Typed Letter Signed ("Margaret"), 3 pp recto and verso, 4to, Atlanta, January 7, 1938, to Hershel Brickell, on personal letterhead, with original typed transmittal envelope. A humorous and newsy letter from Mitchell to her friend, writer and critic Brickell, in which she laments the suffering of what she calls "author's foot," an affliction brought on by "standing all day on street corners and in department stores talking to friends and strangers about whether or not Scarlett got Rhett back." She proceeds to detail her husband's work and vacation status and a friend's love life before signing off and then adding a post-script explaining sudden news that Gone With the Wind has been pirated in Chile: "So it's been a mad, wild day with the State Department on one ear & MacMillan [her publisher] on the other."
Provenance: the collection of Tom Heyes.
7 x 11 in.
Provenance: the collection of Tom Heyes.
7 x 11 in.


















