Typed Letter Signed
Indianapolis: 1914.
Important T.L.S. 4to. 1 page, personal letterhead, October 31, 1914, to Don Seitz, editor of the New York World, about his friend James Whitcomb Reilly, in part: "...The Hoosier poet as a gentleman, to offset all this stuff that is constantly written about him as a Cracker Box philosopher in a country store, spitting tobacco juice on the red hot stove. He really isn't that sort at all. And he's been much changed by his long semi-invalidism -- if you can say semi, when a man is half-paralyzed. But he's happy as a lark, living mostly in a touring car. He's made more money our of Poetry that any other poet ever did. When he pulls up to my house in his big Peerless, wrapped in expensive rugs, I casually remark to him: "You know Keats starved to death!" An exceptional letter that is in fine condition.
American author who, during the first quarter of the 20th century, along with Booth Tarkington, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Reilly, helped create the Golden Age of Literature in Indiana.
Binding: Unbound
Condition: Very Good(+)
Language: English
Price: $300.00
Item #284833