BIB_ID
432987
Accession number
MA 9847.2
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
London, England, 1904? February 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 20.1 x 12.4 cm
Notes
Atherton lists the day and month of writing. Possible year of writing based on internal evidence.
On stationery with the letterhead: "64, St. James' Court, / Buckingham Gate."
James MacArthur, former joint editor of the Bookman (1894-1900), joined Harper and Brothers as a reader and literary advisor in 1901.
On stationery with the letterhead: "64, St. James' Court, / Buckingham Gate."
James MacArthur, former joint editor of the Bookman (1894-1900), joined Harper and Brothers as a reader and literary advisor in 1901.
Provenance
Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, October 2018.
Summary
Thanking him for making the arrangements regarding Rulers of Kings; providing more information about the content of the book; discussing advertising and promotion; asking whether he still has the photograph used at the time of the publication of The Conqueror: "I like that one and hate having my picture taken. Please don't put 'Mrs.' before my first name in advertising"; discussing her article "Why is American Literature Bourgeois"; saying that she turned it in over a year ago to the Review but it has not been published and she cannot elicit any information about its status; asking for MacArthur's assistance and saying that she would like to offer the article to another periodical; saying that she will not send the proofs of her book until she receives a promise that Harper will change nothing in it: "I know that some publishers do take liberties & I'd put my book in the fire before I would permit it"; setting a publication month.
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