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TWO TYPEWRITTEN LETTERS, SIGNED IN INK, TO AN AMATEUR AUTHOR, GIVING HIM ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT ON BECOMING A WRITER by Mailer, Norman
Original manuscripts
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$250.00
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Book desription: Brooklyn, NY, 1983. Original manuscripts. Near Fine. The first letter, dated 5 February 1983, on Mailer's letterhead, is brief: "Dear Jane ____, OK, send me what you've written. It better be as good as your letter. Cheers, Norman Mailer" (signed). The second, dated 16 March 1983, contains 15 lines of text, in part: "Dear Jane, This'll take you out of your state .... I really like `New Jersey Turnpike' .... I know you can find some place to print it .... You're only 18 .... I think you're really a writer, and that's incredible. I almost never say that to people I don't know .... I can't believe I'm saying this--send me another one or two of your short stories .... we'll talk more about it....Norman Mailer (signed). Accompanying these two letters is one from "Jane" dated December 4, 2007, wherein the writer reveals that he "was posing as an 18-year-old cheerleader" when he wrote to Mailer because "...I felt he would be more likely to write to a teenage girl rather than to some 38-year-old bass fisherman who wrote bizzare stories at night after drinking six beers...," &c. Included are the two original envelopes imprinted with Norman Mailer's name and Brooklyn address.
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