MILLER, HENRY. Autograph letter signed to Belvina Slotinkoff [that's right!], New York, n.d. [envelope addressed by Miller postmarked 15 February 1936]. 4 pages, 8vo, on stationery of the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel. An early letter, responding to the recipient's article "Relief" (on social work): "...I had some glimpse into the 'Social Workers' field myself -- years ago. Fundamentally the situation doesn't change -- except as to figures. And it won't ever change radically, in my belief, for the simple reason that the disease will always be greater than the cures, or the effort to ameliorate. The whole idea back of 'amelioration' is false...The old order has to go -- and it doesn't matter much how. But a bigger problem -- according to my present viewpoint -- is how to live own's own life..." Miller refers her to Otto Rank's book Art and Artist and closes: "...what else have you done, I mean as a writer?...Would you care to show me something more? I can only reach out to the larger world through the individual."

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MILLER, HENRY. Autograph letter signed to Belvina Slotinkoff [that's right!], New York, n.d. [envelope addressed by Miller postmarked 15 February 1936]. 4 pages, 8vo, on stationery of the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel. An early letter, responding to the recipient's article "Relief" (on social work): "...I had some glimpse into the 'Social Workers' field myself -- years ago. Fundamentally the situation doesn't change -- except as to figures. And it won't ever change radically, in my belief, for the simple reason that the disease will always be greater than the cures, or the effort to ameliorate. The whole idea back of 'amelioration' is false...The old order has to go -- and it doesn't matter much how. But a bigger problem -- according to my present viewpoint -- is how to live own's own life..." Miller refers her to Otto Rank's book Art and Artist and closes: "...what else have you done, I mean as a writer?...Would you care to show me something more? I can only reach out to the larger world through the individual."