BIB_ID
433018
Accession number
MA 9847.8
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
Mount Tamalpais, California, 1905? January 30.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (10 pages) ; 21.6 x 13.9 cm
Notes
Atherton lists the day and month of writing. Possible year of writing based on internal evidence.
On stationery with the letterhead: "Tavern of Tamalpais / Mt. Tamalpais, California / P.O. Mill Valley."
Signed with initials.
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: "Tavern of Tamalpais / Mt. Tamalpais, California / P.O. Mill Valley."
Signed with initials.
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
Describing how much she enjoys his letters; mentioning that she is thinking of writing two novels about California; saying that she is currently at work on The Travelling Thirds and discussing its publication in serial and book form; describing Mount Tamalpais and the surrounding area in detail and saying that the place makes her feel so healthy that she "could write all day if I felt like it"; responding to a review of The Bell in the Fog; referring to Edith Wharton; responding to the Russian Revolution of 1905 and writing that she hopes "the Romanoffs will be dug up root and branch and made a bonfire of on the Nevsky Pospect"; adding that she would also like to see "the Trusts curbed and the multi-millionaires legislated against" in the United States; discussing socialism and literature on finance; asking whether Tauchnitz has received a copy of The Bell in the Fog.
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