BALDWIN JAMES Typed Letter Signed Jimmy

Sale 2211 - Lot 183

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LESS THAN ONE MONTH AFTER PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST BOOK BALDWIN, JAMES. Typed Letter Signed, "Jimmy," to editor Samuel L. Blumenfeld ("Dear Sam"), thanking him for his letter, and, in a typed postscript, looking forward to being "without this terrifying, gnawing worry about the next meal," promising to pray for him, and, in a two-line Autograph Postscript Signed, "J.," sending love to Clifford and conveying love from Lucien. 1 page, 4to; docketing at top right in ink noting postmark date, short closed tear at bottom edge, folds. [Paris, 6 June 1953]

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". . . It's all very nice, you know, but a little bewildering and just as dangerous as anything else. Still, it will be nice to have silk shirts from Rome, and a place to live, and a place to work and to be without this terrifying, gnawing worry about the next meal. . . ."