ANDERSON SHERWOOD Typed Letter Signed

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ON THE SUPPRESSION OF DREISER'S THE GENIUS ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. Typed Letter Signed, to Chicago Evening Post literary editor Llewellyn Jones, a letter of support for Dreiser's novel The Genius, protesting the attempts by John S. Sumner's Society for the Suppression of Vice to censor it. 11/2 pages, 2 small 4to sheets, Taylor Critchfield Clague Co. stationery; folds, paper clip mark. Chicago, 1 September 1916

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" . . . Until these people tackled Dreiser I, like most people did not take them seriously. I don't know where I got the notion, but for years I supposed the Comstock type of man to be at least disinterested [in] modern Don Quixotes, intent on preventing virgin men and women stumbling into the facts of life. They are nothing of the sort. Instead they are paid busy-bodies . . . Dreiser has stood pat. He has been brave. Sometimes I think he is the bravest artist we have in America . . ."