Lot #624

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Autograph Letter Signed

Description

On Lindbergh's last wishes—"he did not want or need a biography, since he had written his own"

ALS signed “Anne,” four pages, 5.5 x 8.5, Planorbe letterhead, July 23, 1975. Handwritten letter to New York Times journalist Alden Whitman, who accompanied Charles Lindbergh on several trips to the Philippines in 1969-¡970. In part: "I have just received in the mail from home an announcement in the New York Times of July 12 under the heading 'Gill will write Life of Lindbergh.' I am somewhat startled at this announcement—at least by the phraseology—since nothing in my talks with Bill Jovanovich or Brendan Bill has indicated that a 'Life' of Charles was going to be written in this memorial volume. As I wrote to you last winter and have written to others who wished to write a biography of Charles there can be no question of an official biography written at this present time. This is Charles' stated last opinion that he did not want or need a biography, since he had written his own. In addition, nothing could be considered of the nature before Charles' own posthumous book and my two remaining volumes of the Diaries and Letters have been published first. In my first talk with Brendan Gill, he was very forthright in stating that he could not write a biography. It would take ten years to collect the material etc. etc. before anyone could start such an undertaking….In contrast to a full length biography there are, as you probably know, four or five 'studies' already under way of different aspects of Charles' life, some of them authorized by him before his death…There is, of course, no reason you should not write a study of Charles in the aspects in which you knew him. You knew him in a special period and in a special field of which little is known or has been written, and which perhaps shows more completely the mature man." In fine condition.

Auction Info

• Auction Title: Fine Autograph and Artifacts, Ft. Revolutionary War
• Dates: #612 - Ended July 14, 2021

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