May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
PAYING ONE MONTH'S RENT FOR HIS NY APARTMENT: $150! THURBER, JAMES. Typed Letter Signed, in pencil, to Walter S. Marvin, sending a check to pay one month's rent [for his New York apartment; check not present], suggesting an adjustment to the payment schedule in order to accommodate income tax payments, conveying his growing appreciation of Cornwall, and inviting him to visit. 1 page, 4to; folds. Cornwall, CT, 31 August 1942
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"I am enclosing this time a check for the September rent only ($150.00), instead of the quarterly payment of four hundred and fifty . . . .
"Cornwall is lovely right now, after a week of November weather, and we enjoy the town and its people more every day. . . ."