Margaret Mitchell Gone With The Wind

Walker, Marianne. MARGARET MITCHELL & JOHN MARSH: THE LOVE STORY BEHIND GOME WITH THE WIND. Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., [1993]
paper-covered boards (hardcover binding). Illustrated with thirty-two pages of black & white photographs. Notes. Index. "The marriage of Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh was more than a marriage of great love and deep friendship; it was a lucky literary match, both for them and for a world made richer by the creation of GONE WITH THE WIND. Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, this ground-breaking new biography allows the extraordinary couple to tell their love story in their own words....In telling the private story of this remarkable 24-year marriage, author Marianne Walker reveals a long-suspected truth - that GONE WITH THE WIND might never have been written if Margaret Mitchell had not married John Marsh. In addition to being Peggy's husband, best friend, and constant support, he acted as her editor, proof-reader, researcher, business manager, and, in general, the inspiration behind her work.". Tall 8vo (6 1/2" x 9 1/4"). xx, 554, [1] pages. Cloth-backed boards. Navy blue cloth-covered spine, gilt lettering, red

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MITCHELL, Margaret. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Atlanta, GA: 12 Nov. 1937.
Fine single-spaced one-page letter of @250 words on Mitchell's stationery to Herschel Brickell, a noted book reviewer from Mississippi who served on the New York Herald Tribune book section and who, at the time of this correspondence, was a reviewer for the New York Evening Post. Mitchell begins by stating that the day is going to be one of those days "when all hell busts loose" and that she is very interested in "the literary row about Hemingway." Mitchell then moves on to GONE WITH THE WIND, both the book and the movie which was under development at the time of the letter. Specifically she mentions the character of Belle Watling, the prostitute who had a longstanding relationship with Rhett Butler: "I have heard no more from Katharine Brown, and so, I do not know what they decided to do about Belle's accent. My modest and old fashioned family have become accustomed to anything in the last year and a half and, like the Queen in 'Alice in Wonderland,' get up every morning ready to believe six impossiblethings before breakfast. Even Father was convulsed at the idea of someone telephoning from New York to discover how the madam of a Confederate bordello talked." SIGNED "Margaret" in pencil by Mitchell. All of the letters to Brickell that we have seen were signed by Mitchell either as "Margaret" or as "M," an indication of the personal relationship she had with him. Not in Richard Harwell's MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE WIND" LETTERS 1936-1949, though many others to Brickell are..

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MITCHELL, Margaret. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Atlanta, GA: 7 Dec. 1937.
Fine 3-1/4-page letter of @750 words on Mitchell's stationery with several manuscript corrections and seven words added in her hand. To Herschel Brickell, a noted book reviewer from Mississippi who served on the New YorkHerald Tribune book section and who was a reviewer for the New York EveningPost at the time of this correspondence. Mitchell discusses travel plans, visits, and preparations for the movie production of GONE WITH THE WIND: "Several days after I wrote you a story appeared in a New York paper that the actress, Gladys Hansen, Atlanta-born, now a dramatic coach, had been engaged by Selznick to coach Southern accents." Mitchell comments on the choice of Lenore Ulric to play Belle: "I wondered sadly where the blowzy, common, good-hearted Belle had gone." Mitchell writes a paragraph about herhat, "the giddy and idiotic headgear I am nervously trying to balance on myhead," before commenting on her book and its effect on her life: "GWTW is quieting in New York, if I may judge from the best seller list where I am now in twelfth place.... I'm tired of avoiding autograph hunters, people who want me to make speeches, candid cameramen and reporters who want to know very peculiar things which really are none of their business." Much more. SIGNED "M" by Mitchell. All the letters to Brickell we have seen weresigned by Mitchell as "Margaret" or "M," an indication of the close relationship she had with him. Not in Harwell's MARGARET MITCHELL'S "GONE WITH THE WIND" LETTERS, though many others to Brickell are..

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Mitchell, Margaret: TYPED LETTER, SIGNED, 1947

Ephemera Near Fine Probably Mitchell's most interesting letter. To the editor of the San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas: "Dear Sir: I am Mrs. John R. Marsh (Margaret Mitchell) of Atlanta, Georgia, author of 'Gone With the Wind'. I am writing you about an item published in your newspaper on August 5, 1947, stating that 'Mrs. John R. Marsh (Margaret Mitchell) , nationally known author had just arrived in San Antonio from Mexico City. With this item you published a photograph with the caption 'Margaret Mitchell Back to Hollywood'. I have learned that this woman also autographed copies of my novel 'Gone With the Wind' and in other ways created the impression she was me. This has caused me great embarrassment and I must ask you to publish a correction. I was not in San Antonio on August 5 and I have never been in your city, much to my regret. I have never been in Mexico City, where you said I had been, and I have never been in Dallas or Hollywood, where you said I was going. The photograph you published is not my photograph and does not resemble me in any manner. (...) " ; 2 pages

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