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Chandler, Raymond
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- ink and paper
Typed letter signed ("Raymond Chandler"), 4 pages (8 1/2 x 11 in; 216 x 280 mm) on personal stationery with corrections in blue ink and autograph postscript, La Jolla, 3 December 1957, to Wesley Hartley; with envelope of transmittal with holograph notation; horizontal fold line. Housed in a modern brown marbled half morocco slipcase.
Chandler responds to Wesley Hartley, a friend and apparent school teacher, with advice for aspiring writers, including the autodidactic method by which he himself learned to write fiction. Written a few years after the death of his wife Cissy, Chandler was still recuperating from the loss and was putting the finishing touches on what would be his last novel, Playback.
The letter is full of accidental capitals and autograph corrections, which Chandler explains in a handwritten postscript: "P.S. Sorry for bad typing. I broke my left wrist very badly three months ago had to learn to type with my right hand only. Ray."
Chandler responds to Wesley Hartley, a friend and apparent school teacher, with advice for aspiring writers, including the autodidactic method by which he himself learned to write fiction. Written a few years after the death of his wife Cissy, Chandler was still recuperating from the loss and was putting the finishing touches on what would be his last novel, Playback.
The letter is full of accidental capitals and autograph corrections, which Chandler explains in a handwritten postscript: "P.S. Sorry for bad typing. I broke my left wrist very badly three months ago had to learn to type with my right hand only. Ray."