Lot 410
White, William Allen (1868-1944) Pulitzer-prize winning journalist; author of biographies; symbol of tolerance. Typed Letter Signed ("Will") on The Emporia Gazette stationery (Emporia, Kansas), December 8, 1938, 4 pp, 7 x 6 in. To novelist Edna Ferber, with wonderful content. In part: "Going back to your snort about Landon [Gov. of Kansas 1933-37 and Republican nominee for President in 1936]….I…wrote him…and told him to put adhesive tape on his mouth….He has not been up against the anti-Semitic guns as I have….I have helped organize…associations formed for promoting tolerance and my name is anathema to the whold [sic] crowd….The Coolidge book is doing well [A Puritan in Bablylon, published in 1933]….I realized that Coolidge was a shrimp long before I began writing the book but it seemed to me when I cast about for a contrasting figure when I desired to write a story of the bull market that this slight, shy, drab, mean, sentimental, canny Yankee made exactly the figure I needed. I would like to see Victor Moore play Coolidge…as a rather tragic comedy of manners.…" With envelope. Very fine. Life magazine called White "a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense."
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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