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Letter from Gertrude Atherton, London, to James MacArthur, 1904? March 4 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
433008
Accession number
MA 9847.4
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
London, England, 1904? March 4.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (3 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.
Provenance
Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, October 2018.
Summary
Mentioning that she has not received a proof and asking that another copy be sent: "I don't want the article to be appear until I have seen the proof"; promising to send the last of the proofs for Rulers of Kings tomorrow; explaining a reference in the book; saying that she has had a photograph of herself taken.