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Mitchell, Margaret. fine typed letter signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh"), about "gone with the wind"
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Mitchell, Margaret. fine typed letter signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh"), about "gone with the wind"
with four lines of autograph postscript, to her Danish publisher Georg Jervin in Copenhagen, discussing the publication of Gone With the Wind in Denmark and its promotion ("...I shall look forward with much excitement to the illustrations you mentioned. As you perhaps know, neither the American nor the English edition was illustrated..."); she explains what she knows about John Born and her friend Wilbur Kurtz, who will help in a tour of the South by a Danish competion prize-winner ("...We will all do our best to make the winner's stay in Georgia a pleasant one...")
...if the winner expects to see the scenes I depicted in "Gone With the Wind" just exactly as I depicted them, he will be very disappointed. Seventy years have brought great changes to the South...Due to the growth of the city practically all of the landmarks of the days of Scarlett O'Hara have been obliterated...If I may offer a suggestion, it is that the tour of your prize-winner include a visit to Savannah, where Gerald O'Hara lived when he first came to America and where he married Ellen. That is a charming old city...
with repect to promotion in Denmark, she asks if Jervin would "prevent the circulation of the untrue story" that she wrote the novel "while bedridden"' a story which circulated in England and caused her much embarrassment ("...I did not write a line of my book while bedridden...I compose entirely by typewriter and find it impossible to compose in longhand...in 1925 I had a sprained ankle...I find it very annoying to be depicted as an invalid...
she agrees to "autograph" ten sheets for charity, thereby breaking her own rule ("...I have not autographed a copy of 'Gone With the Wind' since last December and it was my intention never to autograph another...requests come in to me by thousands...People called at my home with their volumes all day long...I was so overwhelmed by the volume of requests that I was having no rest, no time to eat, to sleep or to handle my heavy correspondence..."); in a postscript she reports that she has discovered an error in the map at the front of the novel, even though it is too late to correct it, since Decatur is shown 200 miles away in Alabama whereas the Decatur she meant, near where "Scarlett's sawmill" was located, "is a very small town five or six miles east of Atlanta"' adding in her own hand in yet another postscript that her family agrees that the illustrations "could not be better"
4 pages, 4to, on headed stationery of "Margaret Mitchell"' stamped envelope, 4 East 17th Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, 30 August 1937
together with a printed patriotic poem (on the back of a reproduction Georgia $5 bill) signed in ink by Margaret Mitchell, and a Confederate $20 bill
with four lines of autograph postscript, to her Danish publisher Georg Jervin in Copenhagen, discussing the publication of Gone With the Wind in Denmark and its promotion ("...I shall look forward with much excitement to the illustrations you mentioned. As you perhaps know, neither the American nor the English edition was illustrated..."); she explains what she knows about John Born and her friend Wilbur Kurtz, who will help in a tour of the South by a Danish competion prize-winner ("...We will all do our best to make the winner's stay in Georgia a pleasant one...")
...if the winner expects to see the scenes I depicted in "Gone With the Wind" just exactly as I depicted them, he will be very disappointed. Seventy years have brought great changes to the South...Due to the growth of the city practically all of the landmarks of the days of Scarlett O'Hara have been obliterated...If I may offer a suggestion, it is that the tour of your prize-winner include a visit to Savannah, where Gerald O'Hara lived when he first came to America and where he married Ellen. That is a charming old city...
with repect to promotion in Denmark, she asks if Jervin would "prevent the circulation of the untrue story" that she wrote the novel "while bedridden"' a story which circulated in England and caused her much embarrassment ("...I did not write a line of my book while bedridden...I compose entirely by typewriter and find it impossible to compose in longhand...in 1925 I had a sprained ankle...I find it very annoying to be depicted as an invalid...
she agrees to "autograph" ten sheets for charity, thereby breaking her own rule ("...I have not autographed a copy of 'Gone With the Wind' since last December and it was my intention never to autograph another...requests come in to me by thousands...People called at my home with their volumes all day long...I was so overwhelmed by the volume of requests that I was having no rest, no time to eat, to sleep or to handle my heavy correspondence..."); in a postscript she reports that she has discovered an error in the map at the front of the novel, even though it is too late to correct it, since Decatur is shown 200 miles away in Alabama whereas the Decatur she meant, near where "Scarlett's sawmill" was located, "is a very small town five or six miles east of Atlanta"' adding in her own hand in yet another postscript that her family agrees that the illustrations "could not be better"
4 pages, 4to, on headed stationery of "Margaret Mitchell"' stamped envelope, 4 East 17th Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, 30 August 1937
together with a printed patriotic poem (on the back of a reproduction Georgia $5 bill) signed in ink by Margaret Mitchell, and a Confederate $20 bill