MITCHELL, Margaret (1900-1949). Two typed letters signed ("Margaret" or "M") to Hershel Brickell, Atlanta 25 May and 7 September 1938. Together 4 pages, small folio, the first single-spaced, on her stationery with name embossed in blue at top of each sheet, one autograph correction in the first, usual folds, with two stamped, addressed envelopes, few pale stains, otherwise fine . 25 May 1938, principally concerned with remarks on Marjorie Rawling's The Yearling which she has just finished: "You did not tell me one-hundredth of how beautiful it was and, as I had read very few reviews of it, I was not prepared. You can't put a book like that into any category, which I think will annoy people who like to paste labels on literature. Books like this are just what they are, and we can only be grateful that they come to us... To everyone who, as a child has run wild in the woods it must bring back a thousand memories... Do you see any reason why this book shouldn't have the Pulitzer award this year? I don't..." She mentions some other gossip: "I believe I told you of the women who have popped up all over the country pretending to be me. They have signed autographs, given lectures, gotten drunk, picked up gents and done other things not salutary to mention on paper. To date I have been unable to catach a one of them, which is a source of great regret to me..." 7 September 1938: "Evidentally I am not the only one who feels Rawlings should get this year's Pulitzer Prize." She forwards a newspaper clipping. [ With :] RAWLINGS, Marjorie. Typed letter signed ("Marjorie") to Hershel Brickell, Hawthorn, Florida, 7 October [1938]. 2 pages, 4to, double-spaced, with autograph envelope . Rawlings writes: "I'd love to think that perhaps you and Margaret Mitchell could come down here together... I do want to know Margaret Mirchell... She mentions the response to The Yearling and the demands it has put on her: "an increasing surge of damndest correspondence." Herschel Brickell, a fellow Southerner (from Mississippi), was a noted book reviewer of his day (mid-1920s on) and a one-time head of the trade department at the publishing firm of Henry Holt and Co.; he is mentioned in biographies of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost and Hemingway. In the late 1920s he served on the New York Tribune book section; at the time of this correspondence he was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post. (3)
MITCHELL, Margaret (1900-1949). Two typed letters signed ("Margaret" or "M") to Hershel Brickell, Atlanta 25 May and 7 September 1938. Together 4 pages, small folio, the first single-spaced, on her stationery with name embossed in blue at top of each sheet, one autograph correction in the first, usual folds, with two stamped, addressed envelopes, few pale stains, otherwise fine . 25 May 1938, principally concerned with remarks on Marjorie Rawling's The Yearling which she has just finished: "You did not tell me one-hundredth of how beautiful it was and, as I had read very few reviews of it, I was not prepared. You can't put a book like that into any category, which I think will annoy people who like to paste labels on literature. Books like this are just what they are, and we can only be grateful that they come to us... To everyone who, as a child has run wild in the woods it must bring back a thousand memories... Do you see any reason why this book shouldn't have the Pulitzer award this year? I don't..." She mentions some other gossip: "I believe I told you of the women who have popped up all over the country pretending to be me. They have signed autographs, given lectures, gotten drunk, picked up gents and done other things not salutary to mention on paper. To date I have been unable to catach a one of them, which is a source of great regret to me..." 7 September 1938: "Evidentally I am not the only one who feels Rawlings should get this year's Pulitzer Prize." She forwards a newspaper clipping. [ With :] RAWLINGS, Marjorie. Typed letter signed ("Marjorie") to Hershel Brickell, Hawthorn, Florida, 7 October [1938]. 2 pages, 4to, double-spaced, with autograph envelope . Rawlings writes: "I'd love to think that perhaps you and Margaret Mitchell could come down here together... I do want to know Margaret Mirchell... She mentions the response to The Yearling and the demands it has put on her: "an increasing surge of damndest correspondence." Herschel Brickell, a fellow Southerner (from Mississippi), was a noted book reviewer of his day (mid-1920s on) and a one-time head of the trade department at the publishing firm of Henry Holt and Co.; he is mentioned in biographies of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost and Hemingway. In the late 1920s he served on the New York Tribune book section; at the time of this correspondence he was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post. (3)
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