Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright; The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, etc. ALS signed “Thornton,” one page both sides, 6.25 x 8, personal letterhead, March 21, 1933. Letter of regrets to Edna Ferber. In part, “It’s an especially great disappointment not to be able to come Friday evening because…I would like to meet Mrs. Pulitzer again, and Mr. Pulitzer for the first time…it’s the last night I shall be in New York until October…As far as I’m concerned you are the truest Chicagoan of them all: you conferred an immeasurable gift to that city - you gave it a voice. From square miles of troubled hopeful confused apartment houses you lifted the curse of inarticulateness.” In fine condition, with several mailing folds and a couple of horizontal creases. R&R COA.
