Nov 22, 2005 - Sale 2058

Sale 2058 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
WILDER, THORNTON. Autograph Letter Signed, with initials, to Harry T. Moore, editor of the Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, thanking him for the gift of a Lawrence letter and commenting on the Collected Letters. 2 pages, single 8vo sheet. Hamden, 19 May 1962

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". . . Those earlier letters made me ashamed of myself . . . his trenchancy and candor rebuked me for all the pussy-footing I expended when I should have been forthright . . . DHL shows us that the important thing for us 'friends' is not to wait until we're right, but to say what we think as we see it and let our rightness or wrongness be dependent on our sincerity . . ."