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MITCHELL, Margaret : TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

Fine 3-1/4-page letter of @750 words on Mitchell's stationery with several manuscript corrections and seven words added in her hand. To Herschel Brickell, a noted book reviewer from Mississippi who served on the New York Herald Tribune book section and who was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post at the time of this correspondence. Mitchell discusses travel plans, visits, and preparations for the movie production of GONE WITH THE WIND: "Several days after I wrote you a story appeared in a New York paper that the actress, Gladys Hansen, Atlanta-born, now a dramatic coach, had been engaged by Selznick to coach Southern accents." Mitchell comments on the choice of Lenore Ulric to play Belle: "I wondered sadly where the blowzy, common, good-hearted Belle had gone." Mitchell writes a paragraph about her hat, "the giddy and idiotic headgear I am nervously trying to balance on my head," before commenting on her book and its effect on her life: "GWTW is quieting in New York, if I may judge from the best seller list where I am now in twelfth place.... I'm tired of avoiding autograph hunters, people who want me to make speeches, candid cameramen and reporters who want to know very peculiar things which really are none of their business." Much more. SIGNED "M" by Mitchell. All the letters to Brickell we have seen were signed by Mitchell as "Margaret" or "M," an indication of the close relationship she had with him. Not in Harwell's MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE WIND" LETTERS, though many others to Brickell are., Normal creases from mailing, otherwise Fine

MITCHELL, Margaret : TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

Fine single-spaced two-page letter of @650 words with several manuscript corrections on Mitchell's stationery to Herschel Brickell, a noted book reviewer from Mississippi who served on the New York Herald Tribune book section and who, at the time of this correspondence, was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post. His review of Mitchell's book, written before he became a close friend of hers, was one of the more perceptive to appear drawing a parallel between the lives of Scarlett O'Hara and the city of Atlanta, the only major review to do so. Mitchell mentions a visit with a poet, Agnes Kendrick Gray, and encloses a three-page typed poem SIGNED by Gray. Mentions another author, Willie Ethridge, in a similar situation to hers: "The book has gone into a second edition, so Mr. Latham tells me. Despite Willie's disclaimer in the front of the book and her oft-repeated declaration that she made up every character and incident, Macon, Georgia, responds unanimously, 'Oh yeah!' I hope Willie can go back to visit there some day." Mitchell adds a paragraph about the poor health of Marjorie K. Rawlings: "It is a downright shame that she should be ill at this of all times, when 'The Yearling' is doing so well...." SIGNED "M" by Mitchell. All of the letters to Brickell that we have seen were signed by Mitchell either as "Margaret" or as "M," an indication of the personal relationship she had with him. Not in Richard Harwell's MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE WIND" LETTERS, though many others to Brickell are., Normal mailing creases. Fine with the original typed envelope.

MITCHELL, Margaret : TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

Fine single-spaced one-page letter of @250 words on Mitchell's stationery to Herschel Brickell, a noted book reviewer from Mississippi who served on the New York Herald Tribune book section and who, at the time of this correspondence, was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post. Mitchell begins by stating that the day is going to be one of those days "when all hell busts loose" and that she is very interested in "the literary row about Hemingway." Mitchell then moves on to GONE WITH THE WIND, both the book and the movie which was under development at the time of the letter. Specifically she mentions the character of Belle Watling, the prostitute who had a longstanding relationship with Rhett Butler: "I have heard no more from Katharine Brown, and so, I do not know what they decided to do about Belle's accent. My modest and old fashioned family have become accustomed to anything in the last year and a half and, like the Queen in 'Alice in Wonderland,' get up every morning ready to believe six impossible things before breakfast. Even Father was convulsed at the idea of someone telephoning from New York to discover how the madam of a Confederate bordello talked." SIGNED "Margaret" in pencil by Mitchell. All of the letters to Brickell that we have seen were signed by Mitchell either as "Margaret" or as "M," an indication of the personal relationship she had with him. Not in Richard Harwell's MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE WIND" LETTERS 1936-1949, though many others to Brickell are., Normal creases from mailing, otherwise Fine

MITCHELL, Margaret : TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

Fine single-spaced 2-1/2-page letter of @800 words with an 18-word holograph postscript on Mitchell's stationery to Herschel Brickell, a noted book reviewer from Mississippi who served on the New York Herald Tribune book section and who, at the time of this correspondence, was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post. Mitchell begins by stating how happy she is to be back home: "One of the most welcome sights I ever saw was the bright blaze of the mid-afternoon Georgia sun.... I must be like Georgia cotton--need red dirt and hot, dry weather." She also writes a poignant paragraph about her husband staying behind to comfort a friend who had just lost his wife: "I can't help wondering how people manage to live through such things." She concludes with her disgust at being famous: "Even as Sherman's hordes struck at the gates of Atlanta in a long-past July, so do the hordes of summer visitors invade us this month.... Father summed it up when he remarked on how strange it was that there were millions of people anxious to go where they were not wanted and were not invited." Her manuscript postscript mentions how she lost her copyright case in the Dutch court and is appealing. SIGNED "Margaret" in ink by Mitchell. All of the letters to Brickell that we have seen were signed by Mitchell either as "Margaret" or as "M," an indication of the personal relationship she had with him. Not in Richard Harwell's MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE WIND" LETTERS, though many others to Brickell are., Normal mailing creases. Fine with the original typed envelope.

MITCHELL, Margaret : TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

Fine single-spaced two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) of @700 words written just six months before Mitchell's untimely death at the age of 48 after being struck by a speeding automobile while crossing Peachtree Street. Written on her personal stationery and SIGNED "Margaret Mitchell Marsh" to Dr. C. E. Mayos. Personal content, in part: "We were sorry, too, that you were routed through our poorer section and missed seeing the residences which are Atlanta's chief charm." Mitchell discusses her husband's health and inquires as to why Dr. Mayos has retired and is in Florida, prefacing her inquiry by remarking, "It is not our habit to speak out about the personal affairs of other people." Mitchell compares Georgia to Florida and tries to convince the doctor to move to Georgia: "Our state is the largest east of the Mississippi, a sparsely settled one for such large territory, and we are very short of doctors.", Letter, Normal mailing creases. About Fine with original typed envelope

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