TLS signed “Ray,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, June 25, 1953. Letter to “Swanie,” his agent H. N. Swanson, concerning the plagiarism of his work, in part: “Surely if that is so, it is up to you to recover the check for the story on which we made a deal. Bay City Blues is not of course your baby, but it might be possible to get an undertaking from them to print an apology and state the facts. I don’t know much about N. Y. state criminal law, but I know how to find out. If this is larceny, then there should be a remedy. I have in mind to ask Harry Steeger for a total reassignment of all rights to all my stories published in any magazine they own, and to offer him as inducement a right of one republication of any story of mine outside the ‘cannibalized’ group, but a non-assignable right which must be used by a magazine at the time owned by Popular. However, I await your advice and approval. Maybe I don’t have to offer him anything.” Chandler makes a few handwritten corrections to the text, and the upper right bears ink notations in another hand. In fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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