Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American playwright (1888–1953) who occupies a central place in the history of twentieth-century drama. Among his most famous works are The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Long Day’s Journey into Night. A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. ALS, one page, 5.75 x 8, Casa Genotta letterhead, October 26, 1933. O’Neill writes to novelist John O’Hara. In full: “Don’t thank me for the inscribing of ‘Strange Interlude’. I was only too pleased that you wished to have it. And the gift of your book of splendid sonnets gives me all the best of the exchange! All good wishes to you!” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, vertical fold through a single letter of signature, scattered mild toning (heaviest along the vertical fold), and mounting remnants to reverse along left edge.
Strange Interlude, an experimental play using a soliloquy that O’Neill finished in 1923 but not produced on Broadway until five years later, won him the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The work seems to have been a fitting trade for O’Hara’s sonnets, even though O’Neill proclaims to have gotten “the best of the exchange.” Although mostly known for his novels and short stories, O’Hara published Pagan Sonnet in 1923 when he was 18, with that almost certainly the gift he sent O’Neill. O’Hara would go on to write more than 200 short stories for The New Yorker and published his first novel, Appointment in Samara, a few months after receiving this letter. Remarkably scarce and desirable association between the famed playwright and one of his contemporaries.
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