Letter, 1951 Apr. 20, Somerset Bridge, Bermuda, to Arthur Mizener, Northfield, Minn.

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Letter, 1951 Apr. 20, Somerset Bridge, Bermuda, to Arthur Mizener, Northfield, Minn.

Concerns his generous review of Mizener's biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald [i.e. , The far side of paradise ... (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1951)], Fitzgerald's reported comparison of Thurber with [W.M.] Thackeray, and various remarks about other reviews and writers, including Edmund Wilson and his belief in "the unimportance of timely reviews."

2 p., with envelope. Typescript signed, with holograph corrections.

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