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ZANE GREY

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ZANE GREY
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>ZANE GREY </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>“I Am As Lonely-Souled As You”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1875-1939). American author of about 60 novels, most set in the Old West and many translated to film, including <i>Riders of the Purple Sage</i> (1912) and <i>Code of the West</i> (1934). ALS “<i>Zane</i>,” 3pp, 12mo, [CA], Aug 3, [1918]. On illustrated Avalon, Catalina Island letterhead with original matching envelope addressed in his holograph to “<i>Mrs. Zane Grey.</i>” An intimate letter to his wife Dolly. “<i>Something is wrong. You are punishing me for my letter...Dolly, it’s forgotten. It was never meant. It was only me. Always I am in mental strife—except when I work or am active. My mental life is exceedingly poignant, and I am as lonely-souled as you. If I do not hear from you soon I’ll get really mad. This will never, never do. Last June you were simply great. Now—what in the hell could have happened to change you permanently! Nothing! I absolutely and inevitably refuse to let you become like other women. All your hopes in life—all mine are centered in faith in each other—love for each other—comradeship and idealism. What you think you need and what I think or need are only agonies of the heart and soul. I simply can’t believe any hardness of yours can last. That’s all, and despite my hurt feelings I take consolation in that. Maybe I will write you soon —the big letter. Love to you.</i>..” Fine example.</span></p>