?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MCCARTHY, CORMAC. Autograph Letter Signed. 3 page ALS, (9x6 inches), rectos only, stapled, faint vertical crease. "Dear Jerry." McCarthy writes to a friend living in New Orleans mentioning a few favorite restaurants before giving his thoughts about his present living and working situation in New Mexico: "I've been in Santa Fe for about three months working pretty hard on the book - trying to get it finished. Not much else to do here. Actually it is a very pretty old town. Some of the most beautiful adobe architecture in the country, I would guess. The churches here, a number of them, are really incredibly beautiful. I suppose the Santa Fe style has as legitimate a claim as there is to a true native architecture - a very nice utilization of the southwest adobe style and the pueblo. There were some rare unsung genuises building hereabouts in the early days." The letter closes with McCarthy's hopes that they will meet in New Orleans, and a mention of a review ("in Time I believe") of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ("A friend of mine suggested the suicide-author etc. is part of a publicity or promotion campaign, but I think he was not really serious."). Santa Fe, nd [1980?]
