MITCHELL, Margaret
Typed Letter Signed
One page Typed Letter on the author's stationery, dated December 18, 1946, Signed "Margaret Mitchell Marsh." Folded in thirds for mailing, with typed envelope included. A trace of darkening at the folds else fine. Four cordial paragraphs replying to a letter from her friend Myron J. Quimby, who had recently moved to Texas. The third paragraph concerns Quimby's son, Myron J. Quimby, Jr., of whom she comments: "I hope Son finds not only a good job but one that is satisfying and has a future to it." The younger Quimby became an author; two decades later he wrote The Devil's Emissaries, an important true-crime account of "Machine Gun" Kelly, "Pretty Boy" Floyd and other notorious criminals of the 1920s and '30s. Mitchell, the author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone with the Wind, died after being struck by an automobile in 1949. Autograph material by her is scarce.
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