Three items: a TLS, one page, Collier’s letterhead, December 22, 1954, in part: “Except for the well known fact that I am a mush-mouth, I see no reason not to accept your kind invitation to be a Bergen Lecturer…I am going to marry Katharine Lansing Barnes Bryan…I understand that the Coldest College Daily took me slightly apart recently for things I said about The New Yorker book reviewing staff in my book Sweet & Sour, a worst seller that I trust will be available to the thousands who will overflow the Payne Whitney gym during my lecture…You were in a very tough spot with Anthony West, not being able to call him a bastard. Very frustrating. I seem to be permanently ensconced on the wagon and consequently won’t be able to blame booze for my forensic indiscretions this time”; an ALS signed “John,” one page, personal letterhead, no date, in part: “I have a title for my paper. I call it ‘Yale Blue Shoe.’ It isn’t much, but it covers the subject”; and a 7 x 5.5 Christmas card, signed inside beneath a pre-printed sentiment, “Mary & Gordon—Sending this to my favorite college. I know you’re away, but where? John O’Hara.” In overall fine condition. Accompanied by an unsigned candid of O’Hara and his second wife Belle and a retained carbon copy of a letter to O’Hara. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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