ALS signed “Jim,” two pages on two sheets, 7 x 10.5, March 9, 1970. Cagney writes to Ann. In part: “I enjoyed the column. It was easy reading and inasmuch as there seems to be a widening interest in the hysterical era of which we were part there should be a large reader group for just your kind of piece for some time to come. My mail is full of request[s] for information on people who arrived and departed the show business scene from 1930s thru the ’50s. Interesting part is I knew very few and some I never met at all. It’s hard for most people to believe as most seem to think we spent our evenings in each others homes or at gay gatherings where there was much fun, fun, fun. Not so!… Years ago a book was written on an Edgartown man who’s [sic] booze problem was tragic. Everybody in town knew the fella and it caused much anguish to him and his family. I thought it a stinking book and said so. A newspaperman said ‘Well, he has to write what he knows about.’ I said I do a helluva impersonation of a man with a hare-lip but I wouldn’t think of using it professionally. No answer…. Things here unchanged, except that I’m giving back-dancing lessons to my brother’s nurse just to keep things from getting too quiet during my visits. You have never seen such enthusiasm….” Mild handling wear and a few stains, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
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