Typed letter signed : [New York], to Helen DelMonte, 1982 May 3.

Record ID: 
385055
Accession number: 
MA 8687.4
Author: 
Brown, James O., -1992.
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 cm
Notes: 

On letterhead of Curtis Brown Associates, Ltd.; place of writing is from letterhead.
Addressed to Helen DelMonte at McCall's, 230 Park Avenue, New York.
Includes a signed note to Herb [Gold] at the bottom of the page: "Dear Herb: Can I show to her first, or is Playboy or other first?"
Part of a collection that includes Herbert Gold's corrected typescript of True Love (MA 8687); two typed letters signed from Donald I. Fine to Herbert Gold (MA 8687.1-2); a typed letter signed from Jim [Brown] to Herbert Gold (MA 8687.3); a typed letter signed from Jim Brown to Helen DelMonte (MA 8687.4); a typed letter from Herbert Gold to Jim [Brown] (MA 8687.5); and ten pages of Gold's typed and autograph notes related to the novel. The typescript of the novel and the five letters are described in individual records: MA 8687 (typescript) and MA 8687.1-5 (letters).

Summary: 

Telling her that he hasn't "read True Love by Herbert Gold" but "expect[s] it within a few weeks"; noting that the manuscript has not been shown to other magazines; offering to let her run the entire novel in McCall's for $3,000,000.

Provenance: 
Carter Burden.