MITCHELL, MARGARET. Typed letter signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh") to Martha Angley. Atlanta, 6 October 1936. 2 pages, 4to, with two lines of postscript running on to a third page, single-spaced, typed by a secretary, from dictation with original envelope with typed address, both letter and envelope laminated. In the first half of this lengthy letter Mitchell apologizes for not having been able to see Angley and discusses her hectic lifestyle since the publication of the book. She continues: "...I am so glad that you liked Gone With the Wind and I am glad it gave you a better understanding of the south. But I still think that the little girls who were hateful to you when you were small were very rude and nasty creatures, regardless of whether they were Southern born and you Northern born or not! I liked The Tragic Era so very much and I'm glad you liked it, too. I am wondering if you ever read Robert Henry's The Story of the Confederacy ? I know it sounds like a dull history book but it isn't dull at all. It is such a grand easy reading, has a charming style, is unbiased and full of little anecdotes that are very enlivening..." Mitchell then rules against the idea of a journalist "using my letters [to you] as the basis of an article." She writes: "I do not want any personal things published about myself. Anything anyone wants to write about Gone With the Wind is all right. They can praise it or tear it to pieces, say it's good, bad or indifferent. And that is only right and as it should be for when an author has sent out a book, then the author is willing to take whatever comes to the book...A published book is public property. But the author herself (or himself) is not public property. I like privacy and have had a hard time securing it..." In her postscript Mitchell talks about the movie of Gone with the Wind: "P.S. Yes, I am wondering, too, who will play the parts in the movie. But I do not know. I sold the movie rights outright and have no connection with the production. I am not even going to Hollywood as an 'adviser.' What good could I do anyway? In spite of all my efforts they would probably insist on making the characters say 'you all' when addressing one person!"
MITCHELL, MARGARET. Typed letter signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh") to Martha Angley. Atlanta, 6 October 1936. 2 pages, 4to, with two lines of postscript running on to a third page, single-spaced, typed by a secretary, from dictation with original envelope with typed address, both letter and envelope laminated. In the first half of this lengthy letter Mitchell apologizes for not having been able to see Angley and discusses her hectic lifestyle since the publication of the book. She continues: "...I am so glad that you liked Gone With the Wind and I am glad it gave you a better understanding of the south. But I still think that the little girls who were hateful to you when you were small were very rude and nasty creatures, regardless of whether they were Southern born and you Northern born or not! I liked The Tragic Era so very much and I'm glad you liked it, too. I am wondering if you ever read Robert Henry's The Story of the Confederacy ? I know it sounds like a dull history book but it isn't dull at all. It is such a grand easy reading, has a charming style, is unbiased and full of little anecdotes that are very enlivening..." Mitchell then rules against the idea of a journalist "using my letters [to you] as the basis of an article." She writes: "I do not want any personal things published about myself. Anything anyone wants to write about Gone With the Wind is all right. They can praise it or tear it to pieces, say it's good, bad or indifferent. And that is only right and as it should be for when an author has sent out a book, then the author is willing to take whatever comes to the book...A published book is public property. But the author herself (or himself) is not public property. I like privacy and have had a hard time securing it..." In her postscript Mitchell talks about the movie of Gone with the Wind: "P.S. Yes, I am wondering, too, who will play the parts in the movie. But I do not know. I sold the movie rights outright and have no connection with the production. I am not even going to Hollywood as an 'adviser.' What good could I do anyway? In spite of all my efforts they would probably insist on making the characters say 'you all' when addressing one person!"
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