Humorists Marx, Groucho. Two typed letters signed ("Groucho") to S. J. Perelman, together 2 pages, 4to, single-spaced, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, 17 June 1948 and 30 August 1966. Perelman had collaborated on the scripts for two Marx Brothers movies in the early 1930s, Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. In his first letter Marx praises a Perelman piece in the New Yorker: "I, like most others, regard myself as a very tough audience and, for some unknown reason, take great pride in it. This is a hell of a thing to be proud of, but frankly there isn't much else. Your piece in the last New Yorker, about the dame with the platinum hair, floored me ... It's a shame that a man of your talent should have to accept miserly assignments from [Harold] Ross [the magazine's editor] ..." Marx, in his second letter, advises Perelman, if he wants to increase the sales of his books, to "go on the Johnny Carson Show, the Merv Griffin Show, the Jack Douglas Show ... It's not very pleasant work, revealing yourself publicly, but with rare exceptions, this is what writing books has reduced itself to ... this advice hurts me more than it does you ..." Allen, Fred. Typed letter signed ("F. Allen") to Perelman, 1 page, 8vo, single-spaced, n.p., 22 November [1948?]. The author of the mordant Treadmill to Oblivion praises a Perelman piece in Holiday magazine and encloses a news-clipping advertisement for "Wick's Adjustable Fancy Hat Bands." Wodehouse, P. G. Three typed letters signed ("P. G. Wodehouse") to Perelman, together 3 pages, 8vo and 4to, single-spaced, Remsenburg, Long Island, 16 August 1954 to 5 October 1958. 16 August 1954: "... I am a fervent admirer of your stuff and was very flattered when Somerset Maugham in his The Vagrant Mood bracketed us together. I love your current New Yorker series ... My private opinion is that nobody reads anything in the New Yorker these days except your contributions." 14 January 1957 (thanking him for a copy of the just-published The Road to Miltown): "... I don't think even you have ever done anything better than these, but I can't say for certain, as I still have half the book to read ..." 5 October 1958: "What heaven getting twenty-eight years of S.J.P. in one handy volume [The Most of S. J. Perelman] ... Thanks a thousand (1000) times for sending me this superb book. It has come, however, at rather a bad time, as I am trying to think out a plot for a new novel and was concentrating beautifully till it arrived. I now find myself sneaking off to the book shelf and hoiking down The Most of S. J. Perelman when I ought to be at my desk trying to figure out why the hell Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia should have engaged Sir Roderick Glossop (incognito) as her butler, an absolutely essential item of my story ..."
Humorists Marx, Groucho. Two typed letters signed ("Groucho") to S. J. Perelman, together 2 pages, 4to, single-spaced, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, 17 June 1948 and 30 August 1966. Perelman had collaborated on the scripts for two Marx Brothers movies in the early 1930s, Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. In his first letter Marx praises a Perelman piece in the New Yorker: "I, like most others, regard myself as a very tough audience and, for some unknown reason, take great pride in it. This is a hell of a thing to be proud of, but frankly there isn't much else. Your piece in the last New Yorker, about the dame with the platinum hair, floored me ... It's a shame that a man of your talent should have to accept miserly assignments from [Harold] Ross [the magazine's editor] ..." Marx, in his second letter, advises Perelman, if he wants to increase the sales of his books, to "go on the Johnny Carson Show, the Merv Griffin Show, the Jack Douglas Show ... It's not very pleasant work, revealing yourself publicly, but with rare exceptions, this is what writing books has reduced itself to ... this advice hurts me more than it does you ..." Allen, Fred. Typed letter signed ("F. Allen") to Perelman, 1 page, 8vo, single-spaced, n.p., 22 November [1948?]. The author of the mordant Treadmill to Oblivion praises a Perelman piece in Holiday magazine and encloses a news-clipping advertisement for "Wick's Adjustable Fancy Hat Bands." Wodehouse, P. G. Three typed letters signed ("P. G. Wodehouse") to Perelman, together 3 pages, 8vo and 4to, single-spaced, Remsenburg, Long Island, 16 August 1954 to 5 October 1958. 16 August 1954: "... I am a fervent admirer of your stuff and was very flattered when Somerset Maugham in his The Vagrant Mood bracketed us together. I love your current New Yorker series ... My private opinion is that nobody reads anything in the New Yorker these days except your contributions." 14 January 1957 (thanking him for a copy of the just-published The Road to Miltown): "... I don't think even you have ever done anything better than these, but I can't say for certain, as I still have half the book to read ..." 5 October 1958: "What heaven getting twenty-eight years of S.J.P. in one handy volume [The Most of S. J. Perelman] ... Thanks a thousand (1000) times for sending me this superb book. It has come, however, at rather a bad time, as I am trying to think out a plot for a new novel and was concentrating beautifully till it arrived. I now find myself sneaking off to the book shelf and hoiking down The Most of S. J. Perelman when I ought to be at my desk trying to figure out why the hell Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia should have engaged Sir Roderick Glossop (incognito) as her butler, an absolutely essential item of my story ..."
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