McFEE, WILLIAM. Autograph manuscript signed of the sea story "On the Malecon." [Westport, Conn., May-June 1923]. 49 pages, plus title-page, folio, in ink on rectos of lined legal-pad sheets, a working draft with moderate revisions by McFee, signed by him on title-page and with his note "about 10,000 [words]" and address, later inscribed by him on title-page to Phillip Neufeld, dated by McFee twice in the text (May 22 and June 3, 1923), the cheap paper used for the manuscript has now browned with some edges a bit brittle or chipped, green half-morocco slipcase (a little scuffed). With two autograph letters signed from McFee to Philip Neufeld and one to Samuel Steinberg, [New Milford, Conn., 3 February 1965] and n.p., n.d., together 4 pages, large 8vo, with one envelope.

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McFEE, WILLIAM. Autograph manuscript signed of the sea story "On the Malecon." [Westport, Conn., May-June 1923]. 49 pages, plus title-page, folio, in ink on rectos of lined legal-pad sheets, a working draft with moderate revisions by McFee, signed by him on title-page and with his note "about 10,000 [words]" and address, later inscribed by him on title-page to Phillip Neufeld, dated by McFee twice in the text (May 22 and June 3, 1923), the cheap paper used for the manuscript has now browned with some edges a bit brittle or chipped, green half-morocco slipcase (a little scuffed). With two autograph letters signed from McFee to Philip Neufeld and one to Samuel Steinberg, [New Milford, Conn., 3 February 1965] and n.p., n.d., together 4 pages, large 8vo, with one envelope.

"On the Malecon" first appeared in Harper's magazine for February 1924; it was collected in Sailors of Fortune, 1929. In the 1965 letter to Steinberg McFee writes: "Your letter delighted us. Just fancy 'On the Malecon' [manuscript] coming to light. It came out in Harper's. I did some of it over and over again and I was never satisfied with it. I did not get into it what I wanted..." (4)