GRAVES ROBERT Autograph Letter Signed to New Republic editor

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"ENORMOUS ROOM [IS]ONE OF THE THREE OR FOUR REAL WAR BOOKS" GRAVES, ROBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, to New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison, responding to his request for information relating to Grave's introduction to Cummings's Enormous Room. The last few lines written vertically in left margin. 1 page, tall 4to, tissue paper; short closed tears at edges. Deià, Majorca, 3 October 1969

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"Simple! Write to my ex-secretary Kenneth Gay at the Lockwood Memorial Library . . . . Ask him for a xerox of my introduction to my 1928 edition of the Enormous Room, Cape. It was the first to contain his complete text. . . .
"Another thing: I still consider the Enormous Room one of the three or four real war books of 1914-15. The only one of equal quality by an American writer was Ira Jone's 'War Birds' . . . about the air war. . . . God, that was a book! I so want to see it reissued."