Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
"JOYCE'S NEW NOVEL [FINNEGANS WAKE] IS A GREAT WORK" WILDER, THORNTON. Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs. Harrison Davis, on a postcard, complaining of continuous work, wishing he were able to visit, mentioning having seen Rebekah Higginson, inviting her to see the show and, in a postscript: "Joyce's new novel is a great work." 1 page, oblong 12mo, personal stationery; addressed in holograph on verso, with cancelled 1-cent postage stamp featuring profile of Benjamin Franklin. Cohasset, 12 July 1939
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"Golly. I'm working like a nigger baby and shall be for six weeks--after the last performance here I must . . . start work at once on rehearsals . . . . But the picture of a weekend with you and the Hartmans and the babies (I'm a big baby-judge and adore 'em as only a bachelor can) is more . . . attractive. But I'm in a profession now that has no let-up. Work, work, work. Absorbing but exacting. I've been seeing Rebekah Higginson from time to time and memories of Tucson are as pleasurable as ever. If you are coming to see our racket, do stop around afterwards, but rain or shine. . . ."
In mid-July, 1939, the South Shore Players performed Wilder's Our Town in Cohasset, MA.