SEUSS, Dr. and Audrey. A collection of correspondence to Dr. Seuss's literary agent, Jed Mattes, most La Jolla, 1980s. Together approximately 25 pieces, including Christmas cards, notes on xeroxes, etc., various sizes. Seven items bear Dr. Seuss's own autograph, including a typed letter signed, 15 July 1985, which very amusingly considers a business proposition with great circumlocution: "The facts at hand bring to mind, not too clearly perhaps, but yet with sufficiently plausible versimilitude to warrant our taking such action and harkening back once again to the instinctive reaction of the late Charles Darwin who, when confronted with the seeming obliquities of then-mooted 'Saint Swithen's Factor' turned his back rudely on the then Prince of Wales....." At the end of a typed schedule for a reading tour, Seuss has remarked that "13 Stretch limos, driven by Vice Admirals, will swing around the corner of the 57th Street at high noon and splash a lot of high class slush onto the fur coat of Jed Mattes." On a letter from the Summom Bonum Amon Ra, in which they are discussing their creation of mummiforms, Seuss has drawn a small color sketch of the Cat in the Hat inside a sarcaphogus and captioned it: "Sub DeLuxe Model #13 MJ $9,000 (without batteries)." The remaining items in the lot are mostly Christmas cards sent by Audrey Geisel. (25)
SEUSS, Dr. and Audrey. A collection of correspondence to Dr. Seuss's literary agent, Jed Mattes, most La Jolla, 1980s. Together approximately 25 pieces, including Christmas cards, notes on xeroxes, etc., various sizes. Seven items bear Dr. Seuss's own autograph, including a typed letter signed, 15 July 1985, which very amusingly considers a business proposition with great circumlocution: "The facts at hand bring to mind, not too clearly perhaps, but yet with sufficiently plausible versimilitude to warrant our taking such action and harkening back once again to the instinctive reaction of the late Charles Darwin who, when confronted with the seeming obliquities of then-mooted 'Saint Swithen's Factor' turned his back rudely on the then Prince of Wales....." At the end of a typed schedule for a reading tour, Seuss has remarked that "13 Stretch limos, driven by Vice Admirals, will swing around the corner of the 57th Street at high noon and splash a lot of high class slush onto the fur coat of Jed Mattes." On a letter from the Summom Bonum Amon Ra, in which they are discussing their creation of mummiforms, Seuss has drawn a small color sketch of the Cat in the Hat inside a sarcaphogus and captioned it: "Sub DeLuxe Model #13 MJ $9,000 (without batteries)." The remaining items in the lot are mostly Christmas cards sent by Audrey Geisel. (25)
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