Accession number
PML 198725
Creator
Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934.
Published
New York, [1926 or 1927].
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2021.
Notes
The magazine's Board of Editors listed on the stationery comprises Wallace Thurman (Editor-in-Chief), Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, Gwendolyn Bennett, John Davis, and Richard Bruce.
Letterhead designed and illustrated by Aaron Douglas.
Address on letterhead: 267 West 136th Street, New York.
Letterhead designed and illustrated by Aaron Douglas.
Address on letterhead: 267 West 136th Street, New York.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
The word 'way' has been added in ink in the first sentence of the text.
Provenance
Swann Galleries, sale no. 2562 (25 Mar 2021), lot 266.
Summary
A typed circular letter on the magazine's letterhead, reproduced on a spirit duplicating machine, addressed "Dear Friend," and signed "Very truly yours, Wallace Thurman" (his signature likely provided by a secretary). The letter solicits subscriptions and support for Fire!!: A quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists. Thurman speaks on the significance of Fire!!: "FIRE was and is a literary experiment. . . . You have no doubt seen the first issue, and have been either flabbergasted, shocked, surprised, or pleased. At any rate you have been provoked to some emotion. . . . Now won't you do your share and send us either a subscription or a patron's check?."
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