BIB_ID
420634
Accession number
MA 14147
Creator
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, sender.
Display Date
New York State, New York?, 1926 April 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Place of writing suggested by the New York City address Dreiser provides at the close of the letter.
Letter addressed to: The Holmes Book Company / 333 S. Main Street / Los Angeles, California.
Written on letterhead stationery reading "Theodore Dreiser".
Letter addressed to: The Holmes Book Company / 333 S. Main Street / Los Angeles, California.
Written on letterhead stationery reading "Theodore Dreiser".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Explaining that he is considering writing a new novel and is therefore interested in "contrasting respective sales" of his novel The genius and his An American tragedy in different communities and parts of the country, and asking them to send him "exact figures" and "the exact number of copies of each novel sold" by them since the books were first issued.
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