“The only slang phrase I ever invented …”
Typed Letter, signed ("Jim"), to Liz Riley of the Thomas Crowell Company, thanking her for the new Dictionary of Slang.
New York, Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street: 1960.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
1 p. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 11. “The only slang phrase I ever invented …”. A few minor smudges from the original typewriter, original folds, a few pinholes upper left, but very nice overall.
Item #42863
A marvelous note from the Master:
“I am glad indeed to have the new Dictionary of Slang and thanks for sending it along. Maybe it contains — it's up in Cornwall waiting for us — the origin of the only slang phrase I ever invented: I have to see a man about a dog”.
