Two Typed Letters, signed, to Miss Lorraine Rothbard, concerning submissions to a proposed magazine

by Irwin Shaw

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2 pages, each signed in ink. 1950 letter on his personal stationery. 4to. Old folds, minor edge toning, else fine. Item #365715 Two early letters from Shaw's writing career penned two years after the publication of his first novel, The Young Lions, to literary scholar Lorraine Rothbard, The first, dated 10 Novemebr 1949, is a polite note declining to contribute, “I’m afraid I am too busy”; but suggesting she send a copy of the

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