LETTER: Autograph letter signed, July 27, 1939 (postmark on envelope).
Stein on Lectures in America
Stein, Gertrude. Autograph letter signed, “Gertrude Stein,” to Mr. J.T.H. Bryan, n.d. but with a franked envelope postmarked July 27, 1939; one leaf of unprinted blue paper, both sides covered. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
A quintessentially Steinesque articulation, composed as if meant to be incorporated into, say, How-to-Write, or one of the other didactic texts she self-published under the Plain Edition imprint. It reads in full:
Dear Mr. Bryan,
One answer is enough, you see it is like this, take each are, when you think of each it is one, but when you feel each you feel it a part of a number of them it feels more, and so you say each are. After all that is the way language is made, if you go over in your mind the history of the English language you will understand. Read my Lectures in America, Random House New York, it will make many things clear to you. Always,
Gertrude Stein.
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