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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1475

Mitchell, Margaret American novelist and journalist (1900-49); known for the only novel she published in her lifetime, the Civil War-era romance Gone With the Wind. Typewritten Letter Signed "Margaret Mitchell Marsh," 1 page, 4to, on stationery imprinted with her name, Atlanta, May 2, 1945. She writes to John Hardison of Dallas, TX, thanking him for his letter and answering his question "about the meaning of the five asterisks at the bottom of page 1035--they have no meaning at all. They were put there because the type ran to the bottom of the page and there was no way to indicate by a three-line space the passage of time..." Black mounting remnants in corners on verso, otherwise clean and VG. With original typed envelope. Mitchell became an instant celebrity when her book was published in 1936, and won a Pulitzer Prize for the wildly popular novel. The film version of Gone With the Wind, released in 1939, only increased the book´s readership, and it has become synonymous with a certain vision of the antebellum South and the "Lost Cause" of secession.

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