Lettre officiel signée Théodore Dreiser acceptant la lecture mais pas sur la littérature 1939

DREISER AGREES TO LECTURE, BUT “I DONOT WISH TO SPEAK ON LITERATURE”

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945).Dresier, an American author who was a leading proponent of naturalism,wrote Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy and Jennie Gerhardt.

TLS.1pp. 8” x 10 ½”. September 27, 1939. Hollywood, Calif. A typed letter signed “Theodore Dreiser” on his personal letterhead. Dresier wrote to “Marjorie T. Rainey”: “Iwould not have the time to discuss the proposed address with you. However I do not wish to speak on literature. I thought there might be some subjectparticularly interesting you your group.I would like to know the approximate number that would attend. The rest can wait until a later date. I am so busy just now that I cannot put anytime on it, at present…TheodoreDreiser”. In1940, Rainey married Guy Thompson Griffith, a famous British classicalscholar. The letter has the usualmailing folds and is in fine condition otherwise.

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