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FRANCIS STEEGMULLER LETTERS

This collection consists of 32 autograph and typescript postcards and letters from Francis Steegmuller to Charles Antin, Viking Press, all relating to Steegmuller's translation of Flaubert's NOVEMBRE.  These letters date from 1965 through 1978 and are arranged chronologically by date.

The letters were acquired in February, 1992, from In Our Time Booksellers.

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2/1992


5 Jul 1965
Dear Mr. Antin, Your suggestion about a preface to NOVEMBER
interests me....APCS.

13 Oct 1965
Dear Mr. Antin, Thanks for your note of yesterday. It would be
nice if Jamie Hamilton took the book....TLS, 1s.

3 Nov 1965
Dear Mr. Antin, I wrote to Frank Jellinek to ask his
cooperation in the matter of a few possible changes in the
translation....TLS, 1s.

11 Nov 1965
Dear Charles,  Here is my introduction to NOVEMBER, with a
carbon copy for Jamie Hamilton or whichever publisher you
decide to send it to....TLS, 1s.

12 Nov 1965
Dear Charles, Many thanks for the paper-back NOVEMBER....ALS,
1s.

19 Nov 1965
Dear Charles, In this last letter from Frank Jellinek, just
received today, he says:  "I don't know if it would be worth
while mentioning in your preface a few of the more picturesque
details on the original translation...."TLS, 1s.

26 Nov 1965
Dear Charles, Here's a dossier.  Details as follows:  1. Title
page.  OK....TLS, 1s.

7 Dec 1965
Dear Charles, My second letter today.  I just heard from Miss
Lynn Deming, of Doubleday, that their project to have me
translate and introduce Flaubert's recently discovered
SOUVENIRS, NOTES, ET PENSEES INTIMES will probably go
ahead....TLS, 1s.

7 Dec 1965
Dear Charles, Just a few minutes after speaking with you on
the phone this morning, I have received your envelope with its
varied contents....TLS, 1s.

26 Jan 1966
Dear Charles, Here are original and a carbon of the definitive
introduction to NOVEMBER....TLS, 1s.

29 Jan 1966
Dear Charles, I have the typescript of NOVEMBER almost
completely revised....TLS, 1s.

31 Jan 1966
Dear Charles, Now I have the text ready for you again.  I do
fear that it will have to be retyped....TLS, 1s.

18 Feb 1966
Before you send these four pages of corrections to Michael
Joseph, please take a look at the red asterisk and
question-mark referring to lines 7 and 8 of page 90 of the new
typescript....TLS, 1s.

23 Feb 1966
Dear Charles, Forgive the confusion about minor and major
breaks....TLS, 1s.

22 Jun 1966
 Dear Charles, Proofs arrived today, an hour after your
letter....ALS, 1s.

26 Jun 1966
Dear Charles, So glad to have your news. Congratulations to
Viking, and to you too for having come to the end of what
cannot have been the most agreeable of interludes....TLS, 1s.

30 Aug 1966
Dear Charles, Back home, and thought you might be interested
in the enclosed.  I told you, didn't I, about meeting in Paris
the lady who was engaged to Alain-Fournier when he was
killed....TLS, 1s.

8 Sept 1966
Dear Charles, Bravo for NOVEMBER.  Delightful. Look forward to
Michael Joseph edition....TPCS.

27 Sept 1966
Dear Charles, So glad to get the Michael Joseph NOVEMBER.
Nice, though far less [pretty] than yours....APCS.

12 Oct 1966
Dear Charles, I should think that advance announcements and/or
complimentary copies of NOVEMBER might be sent also to Prof.
Harry Levin at Harvard....TLS, 1s.

20 Oct 1966
Dear Charles, A few suggestions only - one of fact and most of
the others because of repitition of words, etc....TlS, 1s.

16 Nov 1966
Dear Charles, Just to tell you that I'll be leaving for France
on November 27, and that through Christmas my address will be
c/o Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company....TPCS.

7 Dec 1966
Dear Charles - Poor Charles - What a pest Jellinek is, to
you....ALS, 1s.

19 Dec 1966
Dear Charles, It's a [---] looking book - I'm happy to have it
and to have participated in it....ALS, 1s.

24 Jan 1967
Dear Charles, A little spic and span for a lover of Le Grand
[Meaulnes], but not bad - don't you agree....APCS.

26 Jan 1967
Dear Charles, Here's another view of the same, for just after
writing you the other day along came the news that the CHECK
had been received....APCS.

7 Feb 1967
Dear Charles, I thought you might like to see the enclosed
from Jellinek about the Notebook....TLS, 1s.

23 Jun 1967
 Dear Charles, Glad to get your note and the latest review
before our departure for Italy....TPCS.

30 Sept 1967
Dear Charles, A Grand-[Meaulnes]-ish scene, no? (The film has
come out here, to much applause)....APCS.

21 Oct 1969
Dear Charles, Just back from Europe to find your note and the
printed piece....APCS.

25 Jan 1977
Dear Charles, Many thanks for prompt and full reply to my
request.  We'll see if my new agent thinks well of pursuing
NOVEMBER....TLS, 1s.

8 Aug 1978
Dear Charles, Nice to hear from you.  Yes - I know
Penguin-Viking has a MME BOVARY (a rival to mine in the Modern
Library)....TLS, 1s.