A Guide to the Letters from Sinclair Lewis to Albert Hergesheimer, 1931-1934 #7834-g

A Guide to the Letters from Sinclair Lewis to Albert Hergesheimer, 1931-1934

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Accession Number 7834-g

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Letters from Sinclair Lewis to Albert Hergesheimer, Accession #7834-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased on 1994 October 4.

Scope and Content Information

In these letters of Sinclair Lewis to Albert Hergesheimer, Lewis regrets he cannot offer financial aid or allow Hergesheimer to do a dramatization of "Elmer Gantry."

Contents List

Sinclair Lewis, New York, to Albert Hergesheimer, Evanston, Illinois, 1931 Dec 21

1 p., w/env. TLS

Lewis is unable to offer financial aid to this new writer but offers to send his name to publisher Harrison Smith who may be able to help him.

Sinclair Lewis, Bronxville, New York, to Albert Hergesheimer, Chicago, Illinois, 1934 Jan 23

1p. TLS

Lewis regretfully writes that it would be impossible for him to do a dramatization of Elmer Gantry as it was done within the past few years.