TLS signed “Doug,” one page, 8.25 x 10, First National Productions Corporation letterhead, postmarked September 24, 1931. Letter to Clifton Webb. In full: “I have done many difficult things in my life but as I sit down to write this I am only to [sic] cognizant that this letter is presenting unprecedented hurdles. Because of this do be tolerant of my writing by typewriter rather than by hand. You couldn't even read it, I am sure, the other way. Deep feelings have never had adequate speech and this is no exception. We have thousands of words at our disposal and a comfortable assortment of adjectives but when we have something of deep import such as telling a friend how grateful one is to him for his friendship and thanking him for many things that must go throughout infinity unrepaid, they all become as useless and futile as Christ’s death or a nun’s twitch to a eunuch. Your visit here has done much for me. Never have I had such a good time. I am indefinitely obligated to you for everything. Your stay was like a welcome rain after a long drought. Only on leaving you have left with us a memory too wonderful and too profound to be so inadequately described as that. If brevity is the soul of wit then a silence must of necessity be the soul of emotion and by that same token I am without further words. Nominating myself as a committee of one representing the Lady and your most humble, residing at Webbfair (if you remember) I extend to you the deepest and most sincere compliment within our restricted powers in the form of two words; Come again!” Tastefully double-matted and framed with an image of Fairbanks to an overall size of 19.75 x 17, with a window on the reverse for viewing the original mailing envelope, addressed in Fairbanks’s own hand. In fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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