GOUDY FREDERIC W Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed recip

Sale 2155 - Lot 272

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GOUDY, FREDERIC W. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient ("My dear Sir"), explaining why he cannot consider his job application and discussing his own work and life. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, "Frederic W. Goudy Type Designs" stationery; folds. Marlboro, NY, 6 September [19]36

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The 72-year old typographer and graphic designer writes, ". . . if it were not for my retainer from the Monotype Co., I would simply starve to death if I depended on support from the people to whom I have devoted some 38 years of work, attempting to make simple, dignified, legible types for their use--the printers.
". . . I have never had a lesson in drawing, lettering, matrix cutting, or printing--everything has come out of books. . . . My first types were made after I was 35 . . . ."