BIB_ID
190058
Accession number
MA 5566.1-10
Creator
Garrett, George, 1929-2008.
Display Date
1968-1973.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 box (10 items), unbound ; various sizes.
Notes
With a Xerox copy of a two-page typed letter from Samuel Vaughan to Garrett, dictated July 3, 1974 telling him not to worry about "Striptease" not doing well, discussing mutual friends and encouraging him to keep writing; concluding "But the nice thing about it all is that literature, like genetics, is ultimately beyond control. All you can do is the best you can do. And that's not a bad arrangement, is it?"
With three newspaper articles related to Garrett, a xerox of a page from Publisher's Weekly (9/24/73), three letters with comments on "The Magic Striptease" by Fred Chappell, Louis Untermeyer, and Kay Boyle and a black-and-white candid photo of Garrett.
With three newspaper articles related to Garrett, a xerox of a page from Publisher's Weekly (9/24/73), three letters with comments on "The Magic Striptease" by Fred Chappell, Louis Untermeyer, and Kay Boyle and a black-and-white candid photo of Garrett.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
A collection of ten autograph letters signed, one letter to an employee of Doubleday, Miss Gately, and nine letters to Samuel P. Vaughan at Doubleday. The letters focus primarily on his writing of Death of a Fox (1971) and a collection of short stories titled The Magic Striptease (1973) and the financial and creative difficulties he faced during this time period, 1968-1973.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (37.7 cm)
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