Typed postcard signed : Beverly Farms, to Ms. [i.e. Mr.?] Scott Donaldson, 1990 Mar. 20.

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Typed postcard signed : Beverly Farms, to Ms. [i.e. Mr.?] Scott Donaldson, 1990 Mar. 20.

Indicating his lack of "kinship" with Fitzgerald despite a promise to review the collected short stories for The New Yorker; thanking him for his kind words about Rabbit, Run, which attempts to bring "that idyll [On the road] down to earth" for he "can hardly believe people are still reading it."

1 item (1 postcard) ; 9 x 14 cm

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SNAC Resource ID: 7972853

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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