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Letter from Robert Penn Warren, Baton Rouge, to Raymond Everitt, 1939 April 15 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
415461
Accession number
MA 22222.4
Creator
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989, sender.
Display Date
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1939 April 15.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. C. Raymond Everitt / Little, Brown & Company / 34 Beacon St. / Boston, Mass."
Written in pencil in unknown hand in top left hand corner "De Voto."
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "Charles W. Pipkin, Editor. Cleanth Brooks, Jr. Robert Penn Warren, Managing Editors / The Southern Review / Published Quarterly by The Louisiana State University."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Responding to Everitt's note of April 13th concerning the amount of material they want to use from Mark Twain's America and estimates it to be about 90,000 words of 75 to 80% of the book; asking about the price that would allow them to use the book and stating that the book has a retail price of $3.00.