TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, May 29, 1937. Letter to Dick Hyman who was writing a book about superstitions and had asked Flagg to relate his. In part: “Fancying myself fairly intelligent it is with some reluctance that I admit to a few superstitions, and I hope you will respect my reticence by at least not printing them in anything larger than capitals. It is bad luck to me to be one of three men with cigarettes and not one match. There is something sinister to me about spending a week-end stark naked in a refrigerator. I am foolishly convinced that misfortune would follow me if I was left alone in a cardboard shirt box in the middle of the Atlantic with nothing but one portion of salt mackerel.” Intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, mild toning, a bit heavier at edges, and marginal binding holes to left edge, otherwise fine condition. RR Auction COA.
