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Letter from Herbert Gold, San Francisco, to Jim Brown, 1982 May 12 : typescript.

BIB_ID
385059
Accession number
MA 8687.5
Creator
Gold, Herbert, 1924- sender.
Display Date
San Francisco, California, 1982 May 12.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.6 cm
Notes
With his name and address stamped at the top of the page; place of writing is from this stamp.
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
Enclosing a portion of the "first draft revised of True Love"; telling him that "there will be fifteen chapters," and his typist should have the rest ready when he returns from Haiti on May 24; suggesting that Brown "might use this beginning to negotiate with Don [Fine]"; mentioning that he wants Fine's "editing response for the work still to be done."
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)