American essayist, humorist, author, and editor (1899–1985) best known for his longtime association with the New Yorker magazine and for his best-selling children’s classics Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. TLS, one page, 7 x 10.25, The New Yorker letterhead, April 14, 1966. Letter to Evelyn Byrne, in part: “I’ve been trying for the last five or ten minutes to remember a book I read when I was in my teens but I can’t seem to come up with one. I did very little reading from 1912 to 1919, being busy with other matters. My house was not full of good books and my trips to the Library were infrequent. I did like animal and nature books—Ernest Seton Thompson, William J. Long. And I presume Mark Twain and I certainly read Booth Tarkington, but am not sure it was when I was in my teens. By and large my taste in books was probably poor, and I did not range about. Even now, some forty-five years later, I am not much of a reader. To read, one must sit still, and I seldom do. I’m afraid this letter won’t be very stimulating to your young people.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Evelyn Byrne ran a program at New York City's Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School where she asked major literary and artistic figures for recollections of what books inspired them; some responses were published in the 1971 book Attacks of Taste. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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