Autograph letter signed “Helen “Papashvily”.

Quakertown, PA: 9 March 1981.

Price: $75.00


About the item

Two pages of a card. 1 vols. 8vo. To Wesley Hartley, an educator and teacher. Fine.

Item #29090

Hartley had written to Papashvily asking about the importance of secondary education upon her writing. She responded “high school and elementary school education are important to any writer-more important perhaps than college for it is in the early years one truly acquires the basic tools, spelling, vocabulary, punctuation, grammar, organization of material, etc that all writers need. I wish I might have been a more attentive student so I would never have to stop and ponder on the difference between further and father, flotsam and jetsam nor search through the dictionary for that wandering l in opthalmologist”.