Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 750
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CONTRACT FOR BROADCAST OF "THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY" THURBER, JAMES. Typed Document Signed, agreement with the National Broadcasting Company specifying the terms of the broadcast of his "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" on the Story Dramas by Olmsted show in March of 1944. Countersigned by [Wynn?] Wright on behalf of NBC. 1 page, 4to; horizontal folds. (MRS) New York, 10 March 1944
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". . . I hereby license you to make one noncommercial network broadcast of the above story within the above period, and you . . . agree to pay me a royalty of fifty dollars . . . .
"It is understood that if Nelson Olmsted enters the military service and the broadcast is therefore cancelled, you may cancel this license on ten days' notice to us . . . ."