Dawkins, Cecil, 1927-2019

"Cheers to you and Betty for the season..."

"I was cheered to hear from you at length. You seem to be sick a lot, and I was somewhat concerned. I daresay you have the writer's stomach. I don't know no remedy..."

"I've just sent off a note to Granville Hicks about your wanting to go to Yaddo. Now this may do some good but you'll still have to have sponsors for the application as mine is just sub rosa..."

"...My French translator is Maurice Coindreau. He did Wise Blood and is doing The Violent Bear but somebody else is doing the stories. They (the stories) have actually been done twice, but the first translation was so bad that M. Coindreau wouldn't let Gallimard use it..."

Letter: "My editor has written me that he must have a note to the new edition of WB as this will enable him to change the copyrite [sic] so I have had to do it. What do you think of the enclosed..."

Excerpt: "I can think of no more disagreeable task than reading over an early work with an eye to forming a judgment on it. This poking about in one's literary past is apt to do no one any good, least of all the writer. Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive..."

"I think if I were Betty L., I would send that novel directly to some more publishers before I sent it to an agent..."

"...I finally signed a contract with Mr. Jiras to make a movie of The River and I have a thousand bucks as the first payment, but I haven't heard that he has started..."

"I'm real cheered you've been to Schenectady. I wish I had known the Pollers when I was there. The kind of people at Yaddo are so much all the same kind that it gets depressing..."

"...About the story I certainly agree that it don't work and have never felt that it did, but in heaven's name where do you get the idea that Sheppard represents Freud? Freud never entered my mind..."

"Put me down for anything any time. You don't have to ask me about it. I recommend a couple of people every year for the Guggenheim..."