ALS signed “T. N.” (Wilder’s middle name was ‘Niven,’ and he occasionally signed with his first and middle initials for close friends), one page both sides, 6 x 7, 50 Deepwood Drive letterhead, February 25, 1971. Letter to author James Leo Herlihy, in part: “God, you’re a crazy type. You give the impression of disappearing, deeply offended, on receipt of a letter—then you reappear with a nothing (no one gives a damn where or when I or anybody else was born.) Midnight—April 17-18, 1897—Madison, Wisconsin. I saw Alec Wilder in the lobby of the Algonquin. Said he’d been in Key West. I said do you know J. L. Herlihy. His face lifted up—yes indeed. Said you’d written a splendid new book. Didn’t I read that two new one–act plays of yours were finding admirers in Europe. You’ve got things like that to tell me and Holy Crackers you ask where I was born. I’ll read your signs = you don’t really like people = you go and burn yourself badly at one over-estimation after another,—or you despise ’em. Just got off the ship from Italy. I’m half blind in my left eye…and stone-deaf in my right ear (temporarily). Otherwise I’m fine.” In fine condition, with show-through from writing to opposing sides. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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