BIB_ID
433001
Accession number
MA 9847.3
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
London, England, 1904? February 29.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.2 x 12.2 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
Writing "Must I have a new picture taken? Very well I'll try it this week" and adding that she prefers her existing photograph, but "I'll try a full length one this time"; saying that she hopes to send off proofs (probably for Rulers of Kings) on Wednesday and asking Harper to copyright it before the 7th; urging them not to delay publication; saying that she has told a number of "public men" about the book and "they all think it will make a sensation"; comparing the reception of her books in England to those by other American women writers; adding that she is still awaiting the contract.
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