Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from James O. Brown, New York, to Helen DelMonte, 1982 May 3 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
385055
Accession number
MA 8687.4
Creator
Brown, James O., -1992, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1982 May 3.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes
On letterhead of Curtis Brown Associates, Ltd.; place of writing is from letterhead.
Addressed to Helen DelMonte at McCall's, 230 Park Avenue, New York.
Includes a signed note to Herb [Gold] at the bottom of the page: "Dear Herb: Can I show to her first, or is Playboy or other first?"
Copied to Don Fine and Herbert Gold.
Part of a collection that includes Herbert Gold's corrected typescript of True Love (MA 8687); two typed letters signed from Donald I. Fine to Herbert Gold (MA 8687.1-2); a typed letter signed from Jim [Brown] to Herbert Gold (MA 8687.3); a typed letter signed from Jim Brown to Helen DelMonte (MA 8687.4); a typed letter from Herbert Gold to Jim [Brown] (MA 8687.5); and ten pages of Gold's typed and autograph notes related to the novel. The typescript of the novel and the five letters are described in individual records: MA 8687 (typescript) and MA 8687.1-5 (letters).
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Telling her that he hasn't "read True Love by Herbert Gold" but "expect[s] it within a few weeks"; noting that the manuscript has not been shown to other magazines; offering to let her run the entire novel in McCall's for $3,000,000.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)