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MITCHELL, MARGARET. Typed letter signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh") to Martha Angley and Beverly Hook ("Dear Girls"). Atlanta, 30 November 1936. One page 4to, single-spaced, on her imprinted stationary, with a 3½-line initialed autograph postscript at bottom, with original envelope with typed address, both letter and envelope laminated. With: Margaret Mitchell and Her Novel, Gone With the Wind, New York: Macmillan, 1936, 12mo, 22 pp., original printed wrappers, vertical crease, inscribed in ink by Mitchell on front wrapper: "See page 19 M.M.M.," and with the passage marked by her on page 19 with an "x" "...I was so glad to have your letters and was interested in the news. I would write you at greater length except that the moving picture people are arriving tomorrow to make screen tests for 'new faces.' They hope to find a new person to play Scarlett. While I have nothing to do with these screen tests, I must be on hand to introduce them to a various Atlanta people who will help them..." Mitchell's postscript refers to the pamphlet noted above: "P.S. Did you all see this pamphlet? So many people wrote the Macmillan Company [publishers of Gone with the Wind ] wanting to know if Scarlett got Rhett back that they had this printed. M.M.M." The passage on page 19 marked by Mitchell reads: "Did Scarlett get Rhett back? Miss Mitchell says she simply doesn't know. To her, the book ended where it ended and she hasn't an idea of what happened after the last chapter." (2)