TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)
Saratoga Springs: 12 October 1945 and 5 June 1947. Letter. A pair of one-page typed letters SIGNED in full, the earlier to a Professor Wells and the later to an unnamed editor. In the letter to Wells, Sullivan gives his permission to include his essay "Football is King" in an anthology: "In fact, I am including it myself in a book to be called A ROCK IN EVERY SNOWBALL. In the letter to the editor, Sullivan responds to an editorial "discussing the witch hunt of the twenties.... I feel sure that I was closer to heaven in those days you wrote about, when Broun, Adams, Alison Smith, Woollcott and the rest of us were having fun on the dear old World.... As for that darlin' man Broun -- well, once after Nora Bayes, a great girl, died, Aleck Woollcott asked me to write a tribute to her for his Monday column, as I had known her well. I did it and Alec liked it, all except my last sentence, for which he substituted one of his own, much better than mine, that read about as follows: 'I don't know where she is now but I do know that whoever is with her is having a fine time.' That goes for Heywood with me, as much as it did for Nora." Normal creases from mailing. About Fine. Item #022406
Frank Sullivan was a peripheral member of the Algonquin Round Table and an American humorist, best remembered for creating the character Mr. Arbuthnot the Cliche Expert.
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