Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 117
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(WRITERS.) Group of 5 letters by 20th-century authors and others, to high school English teacher Wesley S. Hartley, answering his question about the importance of education to becoming a writer, including two ALsS and three TLsS. Format and condition vary. Each with the original envelope. Vp, 1959-93

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John Masefield. ALS: ". . . All men are born to certain lots in life, and use those lots as their spirits urge. . . ." 2 pages, small oblong 8vo. 25 August 1959 Eli Wiesel. ALS: ". . . [F]ormal education is important. But not sufficient." 1 page, 8vo. 2 June 1993 Benjamin Quarles. TLS. 1 page, 4to. 109 February 1975 A.C. Spectorsky. TLS: ". . . I am highly in favor of the college experience for virtually everyone. . . ." 2 pages, 4to. 11 September 1959 William O. Douglas: TLS. ". . . I think one must have a real urge to write and a real creative ability. . . ." 1 page, 8vo. 23 October 1959.