Autograph letter signed Grumpy Old Fields , to his estranged mistress, Carlotta Monti Douglas . Los Angeles, 4 December 1939

by W. C. Fields

$1,750 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

2 pages, 4to, on recto and verso, in fine condition, creased at folds, with original holograph envelope addressed by Fields. Item #404640 A LENGTHY LETTER FROM A BITTER W. C. FIELDS, a lengthy outpouring to his estranged mistress: I can't write you sensible letters because you don't even take time to read them… you can't fool anyone, least of all me. You listen to some bums who tell you you are going to knock them in the aisles in Berlin, Paris,

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