WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE]. MCCULLERS, CARSON. Autograph letter signed ("Carson") to Tennessee Williams, Nyack-on-Hudson, NY, 24 February 1966, 1 page, 8vo, consoling him for the negative reviews of Slapstick Tragedy , which had opened the previous day in New York: "A writer of genius, who is so prolific, so giving to the world as you are should never be upset by stingy and malevalent reviews as you have just encountered. Personally, I never read ny own reviews, afraid that if it is a good review it might give me a Big Head, and if it is a stinking review, obtruse and pointless, it might depress me...Already your light so shines upon the world--Do not be troubled, my dear one..."--PURDY, JAMES. Autograph letter signed ("James" and also "James Purdy") to Williams, Brooklyn, 10 April 1968, 1 page, 4to, in brown ink on yellow paper : " I told Andy Brown [of the Gotham Book Mart] how much I loved The Seven Descent of Myrtle [actually The Kingdom of Earth , which had opened on Broadway in late March]. He said I should write you how I feel. You have the most beautoful American speech in the entire American theatre. Thank you for this wonderful evening..." (2)
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE]. MCCULLERS, CARSON. Autograph letter signed ("Carson") to Tennessee Williams, Nyack-on-Hudson, NY, 24 February 1966, 1 page, 8vo, consoling him for the negative reviews of Slapstick Tragedy , which had opened the previous day in New York: "A writer of genius, who is so prolific, so giving to the world as you are should never be upset by stingy and malevalent reviews as you have just encountered. Personally, I never read ny own reviews, afraid that if it is a good review it might give me a Big Head, and if it is a stinking review, obtruse and pointless, it might depress me...Already your light so shines upon the world--Do not be troubled, my dear one..."--PURDY, JAMES. Autograph letter signed ("James" and also "James Purdy") to Williams, Brooklyn, 10 April 1968, 1 page, 4to, in brown ink on yellow paper : " I told Andy Brown [of the Gotham Book Mart] how much I loved The Seven Descent of Myrtle [actually The Kingdom of Earth , which had opened on Broadway in late March]. He said I should write you how I feel. You have the most beautoful American speech in the entire American theatre. Thank you for this wonderful evening..." (2)
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