BIB_ID
448018
Accession number
MA 4850.9
Creator
De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955, sender.
Display Date
Cambridge (Mass.), 1947 February 12
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead with "Bernard DeVoto / 8 Berkeley Street / Cambridge, Massachusetts" at top of page.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Asking, as a "former member of the Council of the Authors League", for an arrangement regarding an advance and royalties for an anthology (likely "The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories"); expressing relief that he has passed the work for the Mark Twain estate onto Dixon Wecter, as he will have to inherit the publication program, Clara Clemens, "who has so far been able to frustrate it completely", and he "is also next in line to inherit the post I now hold, THE MAN WHO DID MOST TO DEGRADE AND VULGARIZE THE REPUTATION OF MY FATHER".
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