LETTERS: Five TS and TLS.
FIGES, Eva. Five Typescripts, with Typed Letters Signed
1984-1986. Figes' publisher's file from Art & Antiques magazine, which includes the original typescripts of articles Figes contributed over a three year period, as follows:
• "Family Altar," 5 pages, July 1984, with typed letter signed;
• "Stitching Samplers," 5 pages, January 1985, with typed letter signed, plus Figes' hand-corrected photocopied galleys from later in the month with an additional typed letter signed registering disapproval with the editing;
• "Inkstands," 5 pages, May 1985, with typed letter signed;
• "American Connection: Theodore Earl Butler," 5 pages, July 1985, with typed letter signed, and again, a 6-page second draft typescript from October 1985, with typed letter signed;
• an additional October typed letter signed referencing both the article on inkstands and the one on Butler;
• "Fond Faces: Portrait Miniatures," 6 pages, November 1986, with typed letter signed;
• and an additional typed note signed from September 1986 arranging a lunch meeting.
All the letters and typescripts are on British issue A4 paper; mailing envelopes included; near fine or better. Figes wrote an influential feminist tract in 1970, after having won the Guardian Prize for fiction in 1967. Later she wrote novels, literary and art criticism, and memoirs that explored her upbringing as a child in Nazi Germany and as an exile in England. A highly respected writer and intellectual, original manuscript material by her is highly uncommon. In all, five separate original typescripts, one with a complete second draft, totaling over 30 pages of typescript; one set of hand-corrections; and nine pieces of correspondence.
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