A Guide to the Letters from Henry Miller to Tom Brumbaugh, 1943, 1947
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Accession Number 7022-m
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Letters from Henry Miller to Tom Brumbaugh, Accession # 7022-m, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This item purchased from Swann Galleries of New York, New York on November 28, 1997.
Scope and Content Information
Henry Miller sends a letter, 1943 November 29, to Tom Brumbaugh as an example of his handwriting for Brumbaugh's collection, commenting that he does not want to be placed beside an American except Walt Whitman and asking if Brumbaugh is interested in graphology.
On August 27, 1948, Miller sends Brumbaugh a mimeographed copy of a 1947 prospectus for his book "Into the night life."
Contents List
Henry Miller , Los Angeles, sends this letter to Tom Brumbaugh, Denver, Colorado, as an example of Miller's handwriting for Brumbaugh to put in his collection and asks to be placed in the album near Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Rimbaud, or Louis-Ferdinand Celine, "Not beside an American! (Unless Walt Whitman.)" Miller says he understands the joy given by such a collection, "I have looked with tears in my eyes at the script (under glass) of Hugo, Balzac and others in France. Are you interested at all in the science of graphology? What is it precisely that appeals to you in these items? The marvelous thing would be to know when and where, under what precise circumstances, these pages were written."