MACHEN, ARTHUR. Autograph Letter Signed, to Munson Havens, an admirer in Cleveland, commenting on his work, his schooling and Greek theater. 4 pages, two 8vo sheets; folds; mounted into a first edition of Machen's Things Near and Far (London, 1923).

MACHEN, ARTHUR. Autograph Letter Signed, to Munson Havens, an admirer in Cleveland, commenting on his work, his schooling and Greek theater. 4 pages, two 8vo sheets; folds; mounted into a first edition of Machen's Things Near and Far (London, 1923). With original envelope Amersham, 19 February 1934 E300/400 ". . . A man of letters, who puts his work on the market, is as much a trader as a cheeseman. If the cheeses - or the books - fail to attract the general palate: why there is no more to be said, and no one to be blamed . . . I read a good deal of Sophocles & Euripides. Aeschylus I escaped, I am sorry tosay . . . but to make up when I was an actor I played in the Aeschylean Trilogy: Agamemnon, Libation Beareres . . . it is monstrousto try to put on Greek drama in a modern theater. The dialogue is the only thing in common between the classic stage & the modern play . . "