HENRY MILLER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 08/03/1954 - HFSID 174598

HENRY MILLER
The author pens an autograph note on the verso of a postcard about wanting to verify an address
Autograph Note Signed: "Henry Miller" on verso of postcard and in return address on front "Henry Miller", 3¼x5½. Big Sur, California, 1954 August 3. Addressed by Miller to: "Graham Ackroyd, Esq/35 Leathewaite Road/Clapham Common/London, S. W. II./England/(Please Forward)". In return address: "Big Sur/California" Begins: "Dear Graham A.". In full: "Are you still at this address? Want to send you the 'Big Sur Guide' (which has good photos of region & people). What's new? Seem never to have time to write. All the best." American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) is best known for his controversial 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, which along with Tropic of Capricorn, chronicled Miller's life as an expatriate in Paris (1930-1939). First published in France, the works resulted in a 30-year censorship debate in the U.S., which Miller finally won. While in Paris, Miller, the author of more than 36 works, became involved with married author Anais Nin. Ironically, it was Nin, not Miller who documented their romance, which inspired the 1992 film, Henry and June (June Edith Smith Mansfield, a former taxi driver and the second of Miller's five wives, and also had an affair with Nin). At the time he wrote this autograph, Miller, who had helped to establish Big Sur as an artist's colony when he lived there from 1944-1963, was living in Pacific Palisades, California, where he died on June 7, 1980. Slightly worn at edges. Fine condition.