TLS, one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Doubleday & Company letterhead, April 4, 1960. Wouk writes to Frank G. Gaimboy in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In part: “Somebody is pulling your leg, I believe, about a reading rate of 20,000 words a minute. Absorption of what the eye sees at that rate on the printed page must be impossible except for fabled people as rare as chess prodigies. I wouldn’t care if a man read The Caine Mutiny through in 45 minutes—many of the early book reviewers evidently got through it in half an hour—providing he knew what he had read; but I doubt that a significant number of people can do it….” Small piece of tape to top edge, otherwise fine, clean condition. R&R COA.
