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[MODERN AUTHORS]. Archive of approximately 85 mostly typed letters signed (a few autograph letters signed) from various modern authors written to J.R. Humphreys, Writers Conference Chairman at Columbia University, in response to his invitations to lecture at various conferences. Vp, 1963-78. Together approximately 100 pages, mostly one page each (a few longer), various sizes (mostly 8vo and 4to, a few postcards), many on authors' personal stationary, condition varies (but generally very good).
Includes: Ralph Ellison (2 TLS's), Eudora Welty (2 TLS's), Kay Boyle (2 ALS's, written on 4 pp.), Henry Miller (ALS), Erskine Caldwell (3 TLS's), Leonie Adams (8 TLS's), Edward Albee, Nelson Algren, William Golding, Theodore Roethke, Roger Angell, Jacques Barzun, Hortense Calisher, John Cheever, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Evan Connell, Babette Deutsch, Alan Dugan, George Elliott, Richard Elman, Jim Harrison, James Purdy, Mario Puzo, Allan Seager, Susan Sontag, Ben Hecht, and others. (85)
Includes: Ralph Ellison (2 TLS's), Eudora Welty (2 TLS's), Kay Boyle (2 ALS's, written on 4 pp.), Henry Miller (ALS), Erskine Caldwell (3 TLS's), Leonie Adams (8 TLS's), Edward Albee, Nelson Algren, William Golding, Theodore Roethke, Roger Angell, Jacques Barzun, Hortense Calisher, John Cheever, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Evan Connell, Babette Deutsch, Alan Dugan, George Elliott, Richard Elman, Jim Harrison, James Purdy, Mario Puzo, Allan Seager, Susan Sontag, Ben Hecht, and others. (85)