A Guide to the Letters from Henry Miller to Tom Brumbaugh, 1943, 1947 Miller, Henry, Letters to Tom Brumbaugh 7022-m

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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Processed by: Sharon Defibaugh, April 9, 1998 Special Collections Department

Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

7022-m

Title

Letters from

Henry Miller

to Tom Brumbaugh, 1943, 1947

Physical Characteristics

This holding consists of two items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

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

Letter to Tom Brumbaugh November 29, 1943

ALS, 2p., with envelope

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."

Letter to Tom Brumbaugh March 26, 1947

TLS, mimeograph, w/ envelope

In this letter to Tom Brumbaugh, Greencastle, Pennsylvania, Henry Miller , Big Sur, California, sends a signed copy of the prospectus for his book Into the Night Life created with his friend and collaborator, Bezalel Schatz, in an envelope postmarked August 27, 1948.