ELLERY SEDGWICK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/01/1929 - HFSID 288182
Sale Price $105.00
Reg. $120.00
ELLERY SEDGWICK
Written on letterhead of Atlantic Monthly the year he sold the
magazine, sharing reminiscences of his home town, Stockbridge.
Typed Letter signed: "Elliott Sedgwick", 1 page, 8x10½.
Boston, Massachusetts, 1939 March 1. On letterhead of The Atlantic
Monthly to R. H. Reeve, Toms River, New Jersey. In full: "I opened you
letter and heard a voice from the remotest past. It must have been Egbert
Pomeroy Watson, your grandfather, whom I faintly remember walking the
Stockbridge streets, It is almost never that I go back, but Stockbridge is still
home to me. Many thanks for sending me the editorial which is certainly most
kind. Yours sincerely". Author and editor Ellery Sedgwick (1872-1960), was
born in New York City but raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, long home to
his family. In the early twentieth century, he was editor, successively,
of some of America's best known magazines, including Leslie's Monthly,
American Magazine, McClure's, and the Atlantic Monthly. He was editor (and
soon owner) of the Atlantic for three decades (1909-1939), raising its
circulation from 15,000 to 137,000. He was known for discovering talented
writers, including Ernest Hemingway. He wrote a Life of Thomas Paine
(1899). His brother was lawyer and author Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Multiple
mailing folds. Lightly toned around edges. Minor notches at Left and top edge.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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