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Letter from Gertrude Atherton, place not identified, to James MacArthur, 1902? April 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
433032
Accession number
MA 9847.13
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1902? April 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.4 x 13.4 cm
Notes
Atherton lists the day and month of writing. Possible year of writing based on internal evidence.
Written from a Hotel Earlington or Earlingham.
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 enjoyed one of his reviews (probably of The Conqueror); saying that she thinks he grasped something about her approach to Hamilton that no one else has appreciated; discussing her work on the book in detail.