A Guide to the Letters from Zona Gale to Clifford Smythe, 1921-1923 Gale, Zona, Letters to Clifford Smythe, 1921-1923 7763-f

A Guide to the Letters from Zona Gale to Clifford Smythe, 1921-1923

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Accession Number 7763-f

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

7763-f

Title

Letters from Zona Gale to Clifford Smythe, 1921-1923

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of 3 items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Letters from Zona Gale to Clifford Smythe, Accession #7763-f, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased on 1998 July 23.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of letters from Zona Gale Clifford Smythe, Editor of The New York Times Saturday Book Review, discussing reviews and literary matters.

Contents List

Letter from Zona Gale, Portage, Wisconsin, to Clifford Smythe 1921 Aug 16

ALS, 3p.

Expresses her deep appreciation for Smythe's review of her play in The New York Times Saturday Book Review, "it was not only the charm of what you said - noting the particular things I longed to have noted, finding the bits I wanted to have found. But it was of course that this high word came from you - and also because of this came in a way from The Times , which had best seen what I was driving at."

Letter from Zona Gale to Clifford Smythe 1922 Nov 15

TLS, 1p.

Informs Smythe that she has mailed her little review to him in care of The New York Times Saturday Book Review and congratulates him on the new magazine.

Letter from Zona Gale, Portage, Wisconsin, to Clifford Smythe 1923 Aug 25

ALS, 3p.

Writes she will be delighted to review Raw Material by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), which she likes enormously, in The International Book Review ; mentions that Macmillan is bringing out a new edition of her book Birth , "the longest and to me the least unsatisfactory book I have done"; Mr. Pemberton plans to produce two plays of hers, one based on Birth ; and asks him to destroy a twelve year photograph of her used with a review.