Item #310720 Autograph Letter, signed (“Sincerely yours Thornton Wilder”) to Miss Anderson, regarding “distrust of what the movies might do The Bridge [of San Luis Rey]”. Thornton Wilder.

Autograph Letter, signed (“Sincerely yours Thornton Wilder”) to Miss Anderson, regarding “distrust of what the movies might do The Bridge [of San Luis Rey]”.

Davis House, Lawrenceville, New Jersey: 15 May 1928.

Price: $500.00


About the item

20 lines (approx. 150 words), on Wilder’s personal letterhead, with conjugate blank and mailing envelope addressed in Wilder’s hand. 1 vols. Square 12mo. Fine. Provenance: Mary Anderson (niece of John Quinn), and by descent in the family.

Item #310720

Wilder writes young Miss Anderson (in part): “Many things in your letter interested me very much. And your distrust of what the movies might do The Bridge [of San Luis Rey] is perhaps well founded […] It is not impossible that some gifted character actress ‘with a homely face’ might surprise you agreeably with the Abbess’ part! Hope, with me, for the best.”.