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WOLFE, THOMAS. Typed letter signed ("Thomas Wolfe") to Miss Dorothea Hettinger, New York, 21 May 1933. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced, boldly signed by Wolfe in pencil, usual fold creases, with original stamped envelope.
Wolfe responds to a reader's letter: "...I appreciate it all the more because one hears so little about what one writes in a magazine and so much about what one writes in a book, yet the same kind of effort goes into the magazine piece as goes into the book" [probably referring to his story 'The Train and the City' in Scribner's Magazine for May 1933, the piece later incorporated into the posthumous The Web and the Rock]. "Your letter therefore gave me a great deal of satisfaction and I am very happy that your letter could not have come at a better time or at a time when such encouragement could be more useful to me..." It was in May 1933 that Wolfe signed his contract with Scribner's for the long-awaited novel Of Time and the River, the publisher's advance relieving him of the necessity of producing magazine stories. Wolfe letters are scarce (despite the number in this and the following two lots). Not in Letters, ed. E. Nowell, and presumably unpublished.
Wolfe responds to a reader's letter: "...I appreciate it all the more because one hears so little about what one writes in a magazine and so much about what one writes in a book, yet the same kind of effort goes into the magazine piece as goes into the book" [probably referring to his story 'The Train and the City' in Scribner's Magazine for May 1933, the piece later incorporated into the posthumous The Web and the Rock]. "Your letter therefore gave me a great deal of satisfaction and I am very happy that your letter could not have come at a better time or at a time when such encouragement could be more useful to me..." It was in May 1933 that Wolfe signed his contract with Scribner's for the long-awaited novel Of Time and the River, the publisher's advance relieving him of the necessity of producing magazine stories. Wolfe letters are scarce (despite the number in this and the following two lots). Not in Letters, ed. E. Nowell, and presumably unpublished.