Apr 03, 2003 - Sale 1965

Sale 1965 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
FERBER, EDNA. Archive of 23 letters variously signed "Edna," "Ferb," "E. F." and in full, to journalist Herbert Mayes and/or his wife Grace, with one to their daughter, on a great variety of subjects: personal matters such as health, vacations, travel plans and thank you notes; comments on other writers such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein; her work on A Kind of Magic (which Mayes is editing); granting permission to use excerpts from her books in an anthology to be published by Atheneum; her feelings about lawyers, etc. In all, 5 ALsS and 18 TLsS. Various lengths, ranging from a 4-line reminder note to 2-page TLS, various formats, all on her personal stationery. a fascinating archive, should be examined. Vp, 1950-67