ERNEST TEMPLE THURSTON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/22/1921 - HFSID 142494
Price: $280.00
ERNEST TEMPLE THURSTON
Employing classic English understatement, he lambastes an editor for
unauthorized changes in an article.
Typed Letter signed: "E. Temple Thurston", 2 pages (front and
verso), 4¼x7. Goddards Green, Cranbrook, Kent [UK], 1921 January 22.
To "Dear Sir", in full: "I have your letters, one asking me
for an article of 600 words and another assuring me when I had sent you my MS
that it should be published intact in the form in which it was written. In view
of your last letter, I should consider it courteous of you to explain, apart
from the customary excuse of the paper's make-up, why, having obtained copy for
the 'Pall Mall', you did not think it worthwhile to hold to your word. I
expressly said in my letter that if my article could not appear as it was
written, I wished you to return it. Under the circumstances if you had done so I
should have been gratified. Yours faithfully". English poet, playwright and
novelist Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933) wrote 40 books, 17 of which were
made into films; and several plays, three performed on Broadway and 4 made into
films. His best known novel, The City of Beautiful Nonsense
(1909), was made into two films (silent and sound). His best known play,
The Wandering Jew (1921), also spawned silent and talking movies.
Normal mailing folds. Lightly creased. otherwise, fine condition.
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