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HEINLEIN, Robert (1907-1988). Three typed letters signed, one autograph letter signed and one autograph note in a Christmas card signed ("Bob" and "Bob Heinlein") to Murray Fisher and A.C. Spectorsky, Colorado Springs, 10 October 1962-22 October 1969; and one incomplete typed letter to Hefner, 6 September 1962. Together 9 pages, 4to and 8vo, on Heinlein's stationary.
6 September 1962: Heinlein's incomplete and unsigned letter to Hefner: "Or 'Dear Hef' if you prefer it, that being what I was calling you under the influence of gemütlichkeit and vodka-- Now, three days later and sober, I know that I stayed far too late (or early) at your home... and that you were too polite and too tolerant to tell me that it was past time to leave."
10 October 1962: Regarding waiving a fee for the Playboy Symposium in Chicago: "I ain't hurtin', I ain't hungry, and it has been years since I have been under any necessity of writing in order to pay the grocery bill." And regarding submitting his work to periodicals: "PLAYBOY pays the best rates and its editor has asked to see my stuff--that is all it takes... So PLAYBOY will get first look, at least as long as there seems to be any chance that I can meet your requirements."
22 October 1969: Relating to his interview in Playboy: "Murray, I've done my damnedest to give you what you want in this added ending--it took me five hours of real sweat to write these two pages [included in this lot]. But I doubt you will like them... I am not the person I was in 1962. I am older, and, if not wiser, at least sadder... Anybody with sense enough to pour piss out of a boot, foresighted enough to see six inches beyond his own nose, is aware that we are in a hell of a bad shape and the prognosis is still worse--both our country and our planet. I would want odds strongly in my favor to bet that our constitutional republic will last till the end of the century; I would not bet better than even money that the human race itself will last out this century."
[With:] Related photocopied and carbon correspondence to Heinlein from Playboy. (6)
6 September 1962: Heinlein's incomplete and unsigned letter to Hefner: "Or 'Dear Hef' if you prefer it, that being what I was calling you under the influence of gemütlichkeit and vodka-- Now, three days later and sober, I know that I stayed far too late (or early) at your home... and that you were too polite and too tolerant to tell me that it was past time to leave."
10 October 1962: Regarding waiving a fee for the Playboy Symposium in Chicago: "I ain't hurtin', I ain't hungry, and it has been years since I have been under any necessity of writing in order to pay the grocery bill." And regarding submitting his work to periodicals: "PLAYBOY pays the best rates and its editor has asked to see my stuff--that is all it takes... So PLAYBOY will get first look, at least as long as there seems to be any chance that I can meet your requirements."
22 October 1969: Relating to his interview in Playboy: "Murray, I've done my damnedest to give you what you want in this added ending--it took me five hours of real sweat to write these two pages [included in this lot]. But I doubt you will like them... I am not the person I was in 1962. I am older, and, if not wiser, at least sadder... Anybody with sense enough to pour piss out of a boot, foresighted enough to see six inches beyond his own nose, is aware that we are in a hell of a bad shape and the prognosis is still worse--both our country and our planet. I would want odds strongly in my favor to bet that our constitutional republic will last till the end of the century; I would not bet better than even money that the human race itself will last out this century."
[With:] Related photocopied and carbon correspondence to Heinlein from Playboy. (6)