Selected letters of James Thurber / [print]
edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks.
- first edition.
- Boston : Little, Brown, (c)1981.
- xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Letters from abroad to E.B. White and Katharine -- To Herman and Dorothy Miller -- Harold Ross -- Dr. Gordon Bruce -- John O'Hara -- To whom it may concern -- Ronald and Jane Williams -- The Thurber circle: Wolcott Gibbs ; Thomas Meek ; Ted and Julia Gardiner ; Frank Sullivan ; Donald Ogden Stewart ; Lewis Gannett ; Kenneth Tynan -- To Joel and Gertrude Sayre -- Mr. Thurber regrets -- "Dear Ted and Charlie" -- Last letters to the Whites -- The New Yorker's farewell.
Letters covering the period of 1935 to 1961, from Thurber's confident prime as a writer and artist, to his last days when blindness and infirmity failed to quench the exuberance of his spirit or his prose.