(WRITERS) Group of 5 letters Signed by 20th century authors

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(WRITERS.) Group of 5 letters Signed, by 20th-century authors, to various recipients. Together 8 pages, 8vo or 4to. Most with the original envelope. Vp, 1901-79

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H. Rider Haggard. ALS, to "My dear S. Apperley," ". . . [Y]ou should get hold of my last book 'Lysbeth' I think it may interest you . . . ." Ditchingham, 4 July 1901.
Theodore Dreiser. ALS, to Edna Dexter, "[H]ow little you know of reality . . . . Truth? You talk of that. . . . Go into the highways and the byways. Make an intensive study of one human heart. . . ." New York, 29 April 1929.
H.L. Mencken. TLS, to Michael Kowan, ". . . I have just been going through Sherard's denunciation of the Harris life of Wilde. Sherard proves Harris's inaccuracy over and over again, but nevertheless my guess is that Harris's account of Wilde comes somewhat closer to the real man than Sherard's." Baltimore, 29 January 1937.
Rachel Carson. TLS, to Leslie J. Stanford, ". . . It is true that I had made a small beginning on a book which I put aside to write Silent Spring and which I now hope to return to. I am a slow writer however . . . ." Silver Spring, 11 February 1963.
Henry Miller. ALS, to Brenda Venus, ". . . I believe there were two questions: 1) How does literature of today compare with that of yesterday? and 2) What do I think of contemporary writers? As for No. 1-- . . . they do not compare at all. . . . I can think of no contemporary writers who can compare with Sherwood Anderson or Theodore Dreiser . . . . As for question no. 2, frankly, aside from Isaac Singer and myself, I can think of no worth while American writers. . . . ." [Marina del Rey], 1 May 1979.