WOLFE, THOMAS. Typed letter signed ("Thomas Wolfe") to Miss Dorothea Hettinger, New York, 21 May 1933. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced, boldly signed by Wolfe in pencil, usual fold creases, with original stamped envelope . Wolfe responds to a reader's letter: "...I appreciate it all the more because one hears so little about what one writes in a magazine and so much about what one writes in a book, yet the same kind of effort goes into the magazine piece as goes into the book" [probably referring to his story 'The Train and the City' in Scribner's Magazine for May 1933, the piece later incorporated into the posthumous The Web and the Rock ]. "Your letter therefore gave me a great deal of satisfaction and I am very happy that your letter could not have come at a better time or at a time when such encouragement could be more useful to me..." It was in May 1933 that Wolfe signed his contract with Scribner's for the long-awaited novel Of Time and the River , the publisher's advance relieving him of the necessity of producing magazine stories. Wolfe letters are scarce (despite the number in this and the following two lots). Not in Letters , ed. E. Nowell, and presumably unpublished.
WOLFE, THOMAS. Typed letter signed ("Thomas Wolfe") to Miss Dorothea Hettinger, New York, 21 May 1933. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced, boldly signed by Wolfe in pencil, usual fold creases, with original stamped envelope . Wolfe responds to a reader's letter: "...I appreciate it all the more because one hears so little about what one writes in a magazine and so much about what one writes in a book, yet the same kind of effort goes into the magazine piece as goes into the book" [probably referring to his story 'The Train and the City' in Scribner's Magazine for May 1933, the piece later incorporated into the posthumous The Web and the Rock ]. "Your letter therefore gave me a great deal of satisfaction and I am very happy that your letter could not have come at a better time or at a time when such encouragement could be more useful to me..." It was in May 1933 that Wolfe signed his contract with Scribner's for the long-awaited novel Of Time and the River , the publisher's advance relieving him of the necessity of producing magazine stories. Wolfe letters are scarce (despite the number in this and the following two lots). Not in Letters , ed. E. Nowell, and presumably unpublished.
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