TYPED LETTER SIGNED TLS . 2 and 1/2 pages, dated 13 July 1959, to Dear Miss Cole, typed on plain bond paper

by James Blish

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

A substantial letter, about 1250 words, to Blish's editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons, pertaining to his After Such Knowledge trilogy, regarded by many critics as his most important work. Most of the letter takes up a work in progress which Blish considered a step away from the SF genre: a historical novel about Roger Bacon, here titled A LEAVEN OF POWER though ultimately published in 1964 not by Putnam as DOCTOR MIRABILIS, becoming the second part of the ASK trilogy. Blish, after thanking Cole

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