(WRITERS 20TH CENTURY) Group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed

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(WRITERS--20TH-CENTURY.) Group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed and 5 Typed Letters Signed, to various recipients. Several with the original envelope. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

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Upton Sinclair. TLS, "U. Sinclair," with holograph corrections, commenting on Frank Harris and the accuracy of his autobiography. 1 page, 4to. Pasadena, 29 January 1937 Malcolm Cowley. TLS, stating that "[e]ither the S.P. will have to cut loose from Trotsky or the Trotskyites in this country will finish the S.P. . . . ." 1/2 page, 4to. New York, 22 March 1937 George Santayana. Autograph Quotation Signed, "G. Santayana," six lines from his Soliloquies in England. 1 page, 16mo. Paris, 12 July 1922 Robinson Jeffers. ALS, sending thanks and praise for some poems sent to him. 1 page, 4to; mounted. Carmel[-by-the-Sea], 11 February 1928 John Dos Passos. ALS, referring to his The 42nd Parallel, and Three Soldiers. 1/2 page, 4to. [from postmark: New York, 27 January 1938] Edgar Lee Masters. TLS, with holograph corrections, declining to participate in a dinner involving members of the board of governors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. 1 page, 4to. Np, 18 January 1933 William Styron. Three items, each to Matthew J. Bruccoli: the first, ALS, declining to write an introduction to a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald stories. 1 page, 4to. Roxbury, 20 March 1978. The second, TLS, again declining to write a Fitzgerald introduction. 1/2 page, 4to. Roxbury, 18 May 1978. The third, ANS, declining to review a "Gatsby manuscript." 1 page, square 16mo. Roxbury, 6 [February 19]74 Jim Harrison. TLS, "Jim Harrison of the Harrisons," remarking that his first edition books by Faulkner and Hart Crane were stolen. 1/4 page, 4to. Lake Leelanau, 15 August 1990.