细节
MITCHELL, Margaret. Four typed letters signed (one "M," the others "Margaret") to Herschel Brickell, Atlanta, 12 November 1937 to 11 July 1938. Together 9½ pages, small folio, single (mostly) and double-spaced, plus a quarter-page, small folio, initialed holograph postscript, with an 18-word holograph postscript on another letter, usual folds, with stamped, addressed envelopes.
"GWTW ['GONE WITH THE WIND'] IS QUIETING IN NEW YORK"
12 and 14 November 1937 (written over a two-day period), mainly on her family affairs and travel, but with a paragraph relating to the movie of Gone With the Wind: "...I have heard no more from Katherine Brown [see lot 228], and so, I do not know what they decided to do about Belle's [Watling] accent...Even Father was convulsed at the idea of someone telephoning from New York to discover how the madam of a Confederate bordello talked..." 7-8 December 1937 (written over a two-day period), with a good bit on the strain she has been under because of the huge success of Gone With the Wind: "...As you wrote, GWTW is quieting in New York, if I may judge from the best seller list where I am now in twelfth place. Unfortunately, there is no quieting here and I believe our real work and trouble is just now beginning. I have not written you anything about these matters but there are many of them and some of them very serious. If you were here we would, of course, tell you about them, but they are too involved to go on paper and some too serious to go in a letter...It is only that letters sometimes go astray or get lost, and in some of the business matters now under consideration I can take no risks of a break...I'm tired of avoiding autograph hunters, people who want me to make speeches, candid cameramen and reporters who want to know very peculiar things which really are none of their business. And I'm afraid I'd get all those things if I went to New York..." (4)
"GWTW ['GONE WITH THE WIND'] IS QUIETING IN NEW YORK"
12 and 14 November 1937 (written over a two-day period), mainly on her family affairs and travel, but with a paragraph relating to the movie of Gone With the Wind: "...I have heard no more from Katherine Brown [see lot 228], and so, I do not know what they decided to do about Belle's [Watling] accent...Even Father was convulsed at the idea of someone telephoning from New York to discover how the madam of a Confederate bordello talked..." 7-8 December 1937 (written over a two-day period), with a good bit on the strain she has been under because of the huge success of Gone With the Wind: "...As you wrote, GWTW is quieting in New York, if I may judge from the best seller list where I am now in twelfth place. Unfortunately, there is no quieting here and I believe our real work and trouble is just now beginning. I have not written you anything about these matters but there are many of them and some of them very serious. If you were here we would, of course, tell you about them, but they are too involved to go on paper and some too serious to go in a letter...It is only that letters sometimes go astray or get lost, and in some of the business matters now under consideration I can take no risks of a break...I'm tired of avoiding autograph hunters, people who want me to make speeches, candid cameramen and reporters who want to know very peculiar things which really are none of their business. And I'm afraid I'd get all those things if I went to New York..." (4)