BIB_ID
433011
Accession number
MA 9847.6
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
London, England, 1904? March 25.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.1 x 12.5 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
Discussing the publication of her new book (probably Rulers of Kings); saying that she has received a proof (possibly of an article) and it is full of errors, but that she has now made it much better; adding "It won't be approved of -- but never mind"; mentioning that a luncheon is being given in her honor at "the Writers Club (women) [...] it is the first thing of the sort they have ever done"; asking after a contract.
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