ALS,; 2PP, Oct 6, 1917
signed
by TARKINGTON, [Newton] Booth. (1869-1946) American Novelist And Playwright Author Of Penrod And Seventeen and The Magnificent Ambersons for which he got a Pulitizer Prize
From Kennebunkport, Maine to "My Dear Mr. King" thanking the recipient for sending him a clipping "which I shouldn't have seen if you hadn't sent it, as the Transcript comes no more to Miller's Drugstore after Oct 1st, and my evening walks for it has been put in storage against the Summer.I hadn't heard what Chicago thought of "Seventeen" since a telegram from the manager the night of the production ... He ends with comments on his typist Miss Kingsbury ... signed in full. (Inventory #: 9504)
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