Two TLSs and one ALS in pencil, each signed “Clifford,” six total pages, each addressed to “Louis,” with the two typed letters dating to August 8 and 14, 1934. The ALS, no date, written on Hotel DeVille stationery, in part: “Yesterday I read a de Maupassant story & got a good idea for a play for Nazimova. Not that I’ll write it, but it’s an idea. I just can’t see myself writing a play about a woman’s individual & personal problems unless it can be tied to the larger social issues in the air & in my heart”; the earlier TLS, which Odets begins by listing the address for The Group Theatre, in part: “About ‘Awake and Sing!,’ please let me know when you begin to stir on it. I want to look over the people with you…I feel about it like a first baby. But not worried. I think we should hit the dear public in the face with it like a tear bomb”; and the second TLS, finds Odets requesting news on why the play schedule has been “indefinitely postponed”—“At the present moment such news affects my entire relationship with the Group and most of my future plans.” In overall very good to fine condition.
