Letter, 1941 March 4, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. to John [Biggs].

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Letter, 1941 March 4, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. to John [Biggs].

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Perkins writes to John Biggs about Fitzgerald's literary estate and the plan to publish a posthumous edition of some of his works. "... Bunny Wilson, whom Scott so deeply trusted, wants to make a sort of miscellaneous book with those terrible crack[ed] plate pieces from 'Esquire' ... I would be mighty interested to know what you thought of those crack[ed] plate articles in 'Esquire' if you read them."

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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