TATE, ALLEN. Two items, each to editor Walter Rollin Brooks: Photograph Signed and Inscribed * Typed Letter Signed. The photograph, "To Anne & Walter Brooks," bust portrait by Sarony, showing him looking into the camera. Inscribed diagonally in the blank lower margin. Additionally signed by the photographer ("Sarony / 364 Fifth Avenue / NYC") [the last photographer of the Sarony family, Otto, died years before, in 1903], in pencil at lower right. 10 1/2x6 1/2 inches; faint scattered soiling. The letter, requesting permission to publish a revision of his article on Emily Dickinson and sending regards to him and Anne. 1/2 page, 4to; chipping along right edge, short closed tear at left edge, folds. Np, "Christmas" 1927; Clarksville, circa 1928
". . . I've written . . . an article on Emily Dickinson that The Outlook printed in August, 1928 . . . . I rewrote the article, making it practically a new piece, and published it in an English journal; now I want to publish the revised version in this country. May I have permission to do so? . . . The early version was a[s] nearly a popular essay as I could write on the subject . . . ."
