Influential novelist and playwright who wrote Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, Main Street, and other classics, and the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. ALS signed “SL,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, September 25 [no year; circa 1940s]. A letter relating activities and upcoming plans to his friend, fellow author, and priest Father [Edward J.] Murphy. In part: “It looks as tho [sic] Lewis Browne (read his ‘This Believing World’) & I will have several days in N. Orleans, between Univ. of La. & Univ. of Iowa…. Marcella is really writing a story! More of that when I see you.” In very good condition, with usual mailing folds, toning, removal remnants on the second page, and some spreading, offsetting and show-through of ink, affecting signature. R&R COA.
