BIB_ID
384671
Accession number
MA 8675.8
Creator
Gaddis, William, 1922-1998, sender.
Display Date
Key West, Florida, 1975 February 24.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 35.6 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from William Gaddis to David Markson. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 8675.1-15 for details.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Commenting on how glad he is to be done with his book; noting that he and Judith are in Key West, "a place that's been on Judith's mind for 4 years"; adding that "it is a vast weight removed" to be able to tell people that the book is finished; remarking that he must try to "resist the obvious temptation to rewrite it from the beginning" when he gets the galleys; quoting a line from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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