DREISER THEODORE: (1871-1945)

DREISER THEODORE: (1871-1945) American novelist. A.L.S., Theodore Dreiser, two pages, 4to, New York, 23rd August 1928, to Blodgett. Dreiser states that he was pleased to have heard from his correspondent again and to have read the pages that he had sent, and continues to offer some advice, ´You write charmingly, but.....a little diffusely. All that of course can be edited out. I have no idea of your frame work - the structural appeal of it. But if you have am appealing artistic structure and can present it in this colorful, sympathetic manner you should get somewhere with it. I suggest that when you get the manuscript done - not before - you let me see it. But if you do, please expect an unbiassed (sic) comment. I am not willing to say I approve of anything unless I do´, also briefly referring to his correspondent´s marriage troubles ( ´The fortunes of war. And no one escapes some slaps´) and the possibilities of meeting each other either in Washington or New York. Some light creasing and one small tear to the lower edge. otherwise VG