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WILDER, THORNTON. Two Autograph Letters Signed
WILDER, THORNTON. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Harry Moore, one giving him advice on the title of his novel and discussing his upcoming performance and lecture schedule; the other about Moore's book on D. H. Lawrence. Each 2 pages, 8vo. The first gnawed along one side with minor loss to text and with the original envelope. Hamden, Conn. 7 August 1948; 19 May 1962
- Notes: Moore was one of 10 students hand-picked by Wilder for his fiction writing class at The University of Chicago in the Spring of 1929. Moore went on to become one of the preeminent scholars of D. H. Lawrence. " . . . The title of a work may indicate a vice (for that is also an energy) but should not propose a deficiency. Do you want to read George Bernard Shaw''s `Immaturity'' or a book called `The Lame and the Halt''. Dostoievsky got away with it with The Idiot and Hauptmann with The Fool in Christ, but it''s a risk . . ." with--Another 2-page ALS to Moore, about the latter''s book on D. H. Lawrence''s letters: "Those earlier letters made me ashamed of myself . . . his [?] and candor rebuked me for all the pussy-footing I expended when I should have been forthright . . . DHL shows us that the important thing for us `friends'' is not to wait until we''re right but to say what we think as we see it, and let our rightness or wrongness be dependent on our sincerity . . ." 2 pages, 8vo.
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