DREISER, THEODORE. Three autograph letters signed ("Dreiser") to Richard I. Duffy (editor of Ainslee's Magazine and strong Dreiser supporter), New York and Charlottesville, 2 January and 19 March 1901 and 30 March 1902. Together 8 pages, 8vo, a few tiny holes at a fold, slight age-toning along a center fold. "WEIGHING AND PONDERING 'LIFE'S BUNDLE OF WASTE'" Early letters to a magazine editor and writer in which Dreiser writes of the death of his father, the need of a loan to finish his second novel Jennie Gerhardt (not published until 1911), his relationship with his brother Edward, and a review of Sister Carrie (published 1900), etc. 2 January 1901: "Your very consoling letter has proved a genuine comfort to me at this time [following the death of his father]. Surely my lovely holiday dreams were shattered like irridescent glass by the old elemental touch. I can scarcely help, as you suggest, weighing and pondering 'life's bundle of waste' and yet I am grimly enough weary of things not to complain..." 19 March 1901: "I wonder if you could induce Messrs Street and Smith [the magazine publishers] to loan me a hundred dollars for a few weeks long enough to allow me to finish my new novel [ Jennie Gerhardt ]. I am at that place where dropping it temporarily will be more than a distress to me, when a few weeks more will see it finished to my satisfaction and bring me what money I desire..." 30 March 1902: "...I am pleased to know that the gentleman, Dr. Cooper, who wrote the sane analysis of Sister Carrie in the Commercial Advertiser still wishes the book well. He has been more uniform in his praises. Amid the storm of abuse that greeted the book in most American quarters his words were very gratifying. It is a pleasant sensation to have an unknown champion I assure you..." Not in Letters , ed. R.H. Elias, and presumably unpublished. (3)
DREISER, THEODORE. Three autograph letters signed ("Dreiser") to Richard I. Duffy (editor of Ainslee's Magazine and strong Dreiser supporter), New York and Charlottesville, 2 January and 19 March 1901 and 30 March 1902. Together 8 pages, 8vo, a few tiny holes at a fold, slight age-toning along a center fold. "WEIGHING AND PONDERING 'LIFE'S BUNDLE OF WASTE'" Early letters to a magazine editor and writer in which Dreiser writes of the death of his father, the need of a loan to finish his second novel Jennie Gerhardt (not published until 1911), his relationship with his brother Edward, and a review of Sister Carrie (published 1900), etc. 2 January 1901: "Your very consoling letter has proved a genuine comfort to me at this time [following the death of his father]. Surely my lovely holiday dreams were shattered like irridescent glass by the old elemental touch. I can scarcely help, as you suggest, weighing and pondering 'life's bundle of waste' and yet I am grimly enough weary of things not to complain..." 19 March 1901: "I wonder if you could induce Messrs Street and Smith [the magazine publishers] to loan me a hundred dollars for a few weeks long enough to allow me to finish my new novel [ Jennie Gerhardt ]. I am at that place where dropping it temporarily will be more than a distress to me, when a few weeks more will see it finished to my satisfaction and bring me what money I desire..." 30 March 1902: "...I am pleased to know that the gentleman, Dr. Cooper, who wrote the sane analysis of Sister Carrie in the Commercial Advertiser still wishes the book well. He has been more uniform in his praises. Amid the storm of abuse that greeted the book in most American quarters his words were very gratifying. It is a pleasant sensation to have an unknown champion I assure you..." Not in Letters , ed. R.H. Elias, and presumably unpublished. (3)
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