WILDER THORNTON Autograph Letter Signed Thornton

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WILDER, THORNTON. Autograph Letter Signed, "Thornton," to Harry T. Moore, on being a literary critic, DH Lawrence, Tolstoi, Sartre and giving him literary advice. 2 pages, single 8vo sheet; folds. With the original envelope. Hamden, 5 March [1946]

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". . . novel writing and criticism can go together, but only when the former (which includes plays and poetry) has by far the greater place in your time thoughs, intentions and interests . . . On the episode with The Wave I venture only one comment: tip toe away, shoes in hand, from women who turn out to be hysterical . . . NB it sounds to me when Lawrence writes about love that he writes about it as tho' he were a man who had been fatally attracted to hysterical women . . . Beware the historical novel . . . for method - don't invoke War and Peace. Like Shakespeare, Tolstoi can't serve as illustration for anything . . . As for me, I'm deeply absorbed in Existentialisme. I've been seing Sartre in NY - a re-marque-able person . . ."