BIB_ID
90482
Accession number
MA 8678.1
Creator
Gardner, John, 1933-1982, sender.
Display Date
Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, 1981 March 10.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 27.9 x 21.7 cm
Notes
The recipient, Kenneth Millar, wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald.
Housed with MA 8678, a photocopy of the first three chapters of the typescript of Shadows, a novel by Gardner (MA 8678).
Housed with MA 8678, a photocopy of the first three chapters of the typescript of Shadows, a novel by Gardner (MA 8678).
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Discussing the influence that Ken Millar has had on him as a writer; sending him three chapters of Shadows, a novel he is working on; stressing that Millar should not feel compelled to read the chapters or even the letter; explaining that he is trying to write a book that is "slowed-down Macdonald"; commenting on the inspirations and influences behind some of his other books.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)
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