Jun 16, 2022 - Sale 2609

Sale 2609 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
TO PEARL BUCK: "I READ THE 'OF MEN AND WOMEN'" O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA. Autograph Letter Signed, to Pearl S. Buck, suggesting a creative distribution method for her book, inviting her to tea, and, in a postscript: "Is your day in town Wednesday again this year?" Written on a printed invitation to O'Keeffe's Exhibition of Recent Paintings at An American Place in New York between February 2 and March 17, 1942. 1 page, 8vo, written on third page of a folded sheet; vertical folds. [New York, 1942]
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"I read the 'Of Men and Women' and am very glad you wrote it--but I imagine it is difficult to get these girls to read it. Wouldn't it be fun to go out with air planes full of it and drop it all over the country.
"Would you come for tea with me again one afternoon? I enjoyed the time with you last spring."
The nine essays contained in Pearl Buck's 1941 book, Of Men and Women, promotes the freedom and equality of women in all spheres of life.