ALS signed “Margaret,” one page, 4 x 5.25, December 4, 1936. Letter to author and journalist Henry Herschel Brickell of the New York Post, in full: "I'll write you soon in answer to your letter. Hell has indeed broke loose, interviewers, editors, movie folks. Tomorrow I go to Macon. Will write you when I return—yes the movie folks seem to be sincere, at any rate they are working like dogs. The town's in an uproar and you can't imagine what life is like." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Mitchell's own hand. In July 1936—a month after Gone With the Wind was published—David O. Selznick bought the rights to the film adaptation for $50,000. Only the third handwritten letter from Mitchell we have offered, and our first in nearly four years, with this example by far the most desirable given its content relating to the early media whirlwind surrounding production of the Gone With the Wind movie.
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