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DELAND, MARGARET. Archive of 24 letters and a fragment of a typescript with extensive holograph corrections, including 6 Autograph Letters Signed and 18 Typed Letters Signed. The letters, to Bookman Editor James MacArthur ("Dear Mr. MacArthur"), concerning text corrections, payment terms, plot line proposals, also sending manuscripts [not present], and discussing books read by other authors. The typescript, unsigned, two pages from The Awakening of Helena Richie on separate leaves, one with more lines struck out or modified than left standing, the other attached to an orange leaf on which is written related corrections in holograph. Together 97 pages, 8vo or 4to; generally good condition. Boston or Kennebunkport or Dedham, 1904-08
24 November 1905: "Mr. Alden wrote me . . . urging me to come to New York for the Mark Twain dinner [celebrating his seventieth birthday]. The honest truth is that, considering Mr. Clemens' remarks in regard to Mr. Ames and Mr. Deland, I am inclined to think it would not be becoming for me to be among the people who gather to do him honor. . . . [I]f you could find the time to tell him anything of Mr. Clemens' visit to Boston, and the astonishing attitude which he assumed, in regarding Mr. Ames and Mr. Deland as scoundrels, it would, I think, make Mr. Alden feel that I did not mean to be ungracious or unappreciative of Colonel Harvey's kind invitation . . . ."
