TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” one page, 7.25 x 11, personal letterhead, September 30, 1938. Letter to Cadet H. Hammond Walker at The Citadel, in full: "I thank you so much for the compliment you paid me in asking me to write something for 'The Shako.' Under ordinary circumstances it would give me pleasure to do this, but my circumstances are far from ordinary just now. In the first place, I am not doing any writing of any kind, as the many business matters which have come in the train of 'Gone With the Wind' keep me too busy to do any writing. In the second place, I am tied by promises to editors of magazines, newspapers and various periodicals. I have promised them all that when—and if—I should ever have the leisure to do any writing, even if only very short articles or paragraphs, I would give all of them the right to see my writings. So, it will be impossible for me to oblige you. Several years ago when I was in Charleston I had the pleasant experience of going to The Citadel and seeing the cadets at drill. I knew something of the history of your famous institution, and so I found the drill doubly exciting." In fine condition. Accompanied by the Spring 1939 issue of The Shako, for which Hammond was editor, as well as the original mailing envelope. Though Mitchell had worked as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal in her youth, she famously only ever published a single novel—Gone With the Wind—and all other writings were destroyed at her request.
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