MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/17/1937 - HFSID 55682
Price: $2,800.00
MARGARET MITCHELL
The author writes to friend Edwin Granberry about the wild rumors circulating about
her, including the "Reno divorce" which will come as a surprise to the man who "sleeps in
my bed".
Typed Letter signed: "Margaret," 1p, 7x11. Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 February 17. On her
"Margaret Mitchell" stationery, the winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her only
novel, Gone With the Wind, writes to Mabel and Edwin Granberry. When Mitchell's Gone
With the Wind was published in 1936, Edwin, himself an author, wrote the first review
of the book, a positive one for the New York Sun. The review soothed Margaret's fears
about the book she spent ten years writing. In full: "The crate of fruit arrived and we thank
you so very much. Bessie and I have been squeezing oranges ever since and I have drunk juice till it
is running out of my ears. You were grand to think about us. Of course this isn't as exciting as
actually picking them from your trees but, until I can do that again, this way is very nice. We
were sorry to hear about the illness of Mable and the boys. The whole South seems to be full of
pneumonia. I had to go to Macon two days ago to the funeral of Aaron Bernd, book reviewer of
the Telegraph, who had died of pneumonia. I felt so bad when I came back I was afraid I had
picked it up too, but discovered it was only a heavy heart and not pneumonia. Things are still
frenzied and rumors still burgeoning. I hear with some surprise that I am collaborating with Faith
Baldwin on a play; that I have sold the Saturday Evening Post a serial for a half-million dollars;
and that I am now in Reno divorcing John. If this last is true, I can't imagine who the gentleman
in the pajamas is. He sleeps in my bed and calls himself John Marsh, but I am beginning to
wonder. John, by the way, is better but is not gaining strength as quickly as he should. However,
the doctor says he is doing very well." Mitchell was not prone to giving interviews after Gone
With the Wind was published so she was a prime target for false reports. In a
handwritten postscript she adds: "P.S. Thanks for John's page of notes." Usual folds, else fine.
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