Two autograph letters signed “Inez Haynes Irwin”

by Inez Haynes Irwin, American novelist

$50 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

3 pages and 1 1/2 pages. 1 vols. 4to. To Wesley Hartley, an educator and teacher. Folds, original envelope with first, else fine. Item #29050 Responding to Hartley's letter enquiring about her literary career and the influence her education had upon it. She writes “Every bit of education will be used by the author or writer…A college education is not necessary for creative writing. Nothing is necessary but a burning desire to write.

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