Typed letter, signed “Louis Gottschalk”

by Louis Gottschalk

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

1 1/2 pages. 1 vols. 4to. To Wesley Hartley, an educator and teacher of creative writing. Fine. Item #24674 Hartley had written Gottschalk enquiring as to the importance of his high school/college education on his creative writing. He responded that “enough good writers of both poetry and prose have not gone to college to make it presumptuous for a college professor to claim that college experience is necessary for creative writing.”

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