Margaret Mitchell Typed Letter Signed.

MITCHELL, Margaret.

Item Number: 109371

An original typed letter signed by the author of Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell, dated 5 September 1936. It is on Mitchell‘s letterhead and reads, “Dear Mrs. Simpson: Thank you for your letter and your interest. No I am not contemplating any lecture tour. In fact I have turned down many invitations to speak. I do not intend ever to make any speeches, for I realize that writing books and making speeches are two very different affairs Sincerely, Margaret Mitchell.” Matted and framed with a portrait of Mitchell at her typewriter, 6. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 14.5 inches.

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist, and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.