ALS signed “T.,” penned on the reverse of a 5.75 x 4.25 postcard from Verbier, Switzerland, postmarked February 10, 1972. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Irving Lazar, in full: "Here, all snow and ice and silence. Dull. But am working on my book like a foolish husband returned to a neglected but beloved sposada. Didn't cable about 'Gatsby' situation as I was sure that by then you knew all about it. Love you both and miss you." In fine condition.
Irving 'Swifty' Lazar was a noted talent agent and dealmaker who represented movie stars and authors like Lauren Bacall, Noël Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Vladimir Nabokov, Cole Porter, President Richard Nixon, and Tennessee Williams. The "Gatsby" situation to which Capote refers is most certainly his falling out with Paramount Pictures and the rejection of his screenplay for an adaptation of The Great Gatsby; the 1974 movie, which was directed by Jack Clayton and starred Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, was eventually written by Francis Ford Coppola.
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