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MITCHELL, MARGARET

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MITCHELL, MARGARET
<b>1169. MARGARET MITCHELL </b>(1900 - 1949) American author, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her epic novel <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. Fine content T.L.S. "<i>Margaret</i>" on her personal letterhead, 2pp. 4to., Atlanta, Aug. 1, 1939 to her friend Herschel Brickell. In part: <i>"ÉI am feeling that an earache is preferable to sulfanilamide and the doctor crawling in and out of my ear with a lamp and pickaxe like a coal minerÉI tried but could not equal your dispositionÉ work piled up while I was under the weather and John and I have been laboring like coolies ever since...The approaching premier of `Gone With the Wind,' which has been promised to Atlanta, seems to have stirred up the public all over again and that makes for added difficulties. I feel certain that once the picture is over and done with things will be much better around our houseÉ</i>". Folds, else fine condition. Despite Mitchell's predictions, the December 15, 1939 premier of "Gone With the Wind" was one of the biggest, most heavily promoted film premiers ever, and of course Mitchell found little calm in her life once the film "took off"! <b>$2,000-3,000</b>