Thurber, James, 1894-1961.,

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.



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Thurber, James, 1894-1961 --Correspondence.


Humorists, American--20th century--Correspondence.
Cartoonists--United States--Correspondence.

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