Lot 4422
Auden, W. H (1907-73) English poet. Autograph Letter Signed ("Wystan"), Brooklyn Heights, New York, October 14, 1939, 1½ pp (1 sheet), 10½ x 7¼ in. Written in six numbered paragraphs to Richard Eberhart, a Minnesota-born poet who became poet-in-residence at Dartmouth. In part: " Of course, I shall be delighted to do anything about squeezing money for you out of Gug-Gug [Guggenheim Foundation]…(I'm doing a high school operetta about Paul Bunyan). Still an equivocal alien. But assurances from Washington officials that they will defend me if attacked by Dies [Dies Committee on Unamerican Activities]…Pearl Buck wrote…'Auden isn't even a liberal; he's definitely right-wing.' No, you may not quote my remark in the Gotham Book Mart. I have to be very careful until I have become an American. Just got into this apartment which has a heavenly view over the river to Manhattan. Not a word from English friends. Wilbert has been 'banned' by the F.O. [Foreign Office]. Written in red ink with a few smears, else fine.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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