BRANDO MARLON Autograph Letter Signed with a four line posts

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BRANDO TAKES UP THE NATIVE AMERICAN CAUSE BRANDO, MARLON. Autograph Letter Signed, with a four-line postscript, to Esquire editor Robert Brown ("Dear Bobby"), answering his offer to contribute to Esquire, suggesting that he write an article about the injustice experienced by "American Indians," recommending some books on the subject, explaining why he refused a proposal for an article on "the Real Marlo Brandon [sic]," giving his travel plans, sending his love to common friends, and in a postscript, [referring to the cover illustration of the December 1963 Esquire] "Sonny Liston as Santa was a wonderful piece of wit. Please tell whoever is responsible that it was a superb notion and I enjoyed the hell out of it." With the original envelope. 3 pages, folio, ruled paper; minor even toning, horizontal folds. Papeete, 26 [December] 1963 [from postmark]

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"I think you wrote me a letter about seventeen years ago about doing something for Esquire, or has insanity finally engulfed me? Anyway, here's an answer, whether you want it or not. . . .
"I recieved [sic] a letter from somebody at Esq. not too long ago asking me if I would like to have Calder Wellingham do an article about 'the Real Marlo Brandon' and I'd just as soon not. . . . [T]he e[a]rnest search for the soul of the man and the great dark journey inwards all for the sake of Arnold Gingrich and his loyal readers finds me with pinched brows and, I guess, a wan smile, but . . . I would like to scribble a thousand words, or whatever, about the American Indian, who has been thoroughly shat on by this count[r]y from the time of its inception . . . .
"I hope your[e] well and doing what you like to do . . . . I'm doing O.K. finally after about twenty years of going the wrong way on the freeway. . . . [A]nd please tell Jeff that it was not me on the phone that night--nor any other night. I've never talked on the phone in my life, so help me god! I don't even have a phone. . . ."