HAMMETT DASHIELL Autograph Letter Signed Hammett to Isadore Gottlieb

Sale 2628 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 688

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000

WRITING FROM A PLACE NOT "CONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN RELATION TO WOMEN AND WHISKY" HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Autograph Letter Signed, "Hammett," to Isadore Gottlieb, conveying news of common friends at Fort Monmouth in NJ, where Hammett was formerly stationed. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on two sheets; minor loss to small area at upper edge, folds. With the original envelope. "Alaska" [Cold Bay?], 1 September 1943

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". . . I've been up here about a month, and so far the going isn't bad. My present spot isn't what you'd call conveniently located in relation to women and whisky, but I guess you can't have everything . . . . But can you drink double hookers of fresh air with a beer chaser? I don't know, I've never tried.
"Once in a while I get a spot of news from Monmouth. My bunch seems to have left Sea Girt for Wood again. Treloar is still flubbing the dub and dodging shipment. . . . Monash beat the game and got out of the army with an honorable discharge. He's now happily--so Florence writes me--doing radio programs for the O[ffice of] W[ar] I[nformation]. . . .
". . . Rumors about what's going to happen to us float through the air a dozen a minute since Kiska came back to us--but it's a long time since I've wasted any ink copying down latrinograms. . . ."