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Civil liberties lawyer Clarence Darrow autograph letter signed. Upon his personal stationery, Darrow's letter is dated 23 December circa 1930, about three years before Prohibition was repealed. Addressed to law professor Dr. Forrest R. Black, Darrow here gives Black in introduction to a publisher in order to publish his essays on prohibition. Letter reads, ''My Dear Mr. Black / Won't you please write and return to me a statement such as you would like me to make. I['ll] send it to you as you are more familiar with the subject. I have a very high regard for your ability and am quite sure I am not mistaken. Write it on a separate sheet of paper so I can fill out the enclosed which of course you will return to me. Last week I met the President of Dutton & Co. who had written me asking that I stop in to see him when in New York. He took me to luncheon and I was with him for several hours. He has a very liberal outlook upon the questions of the day. He told me that he published any book that he thought worth while, whether he or the public agreed with it or whether he thought that it would have a good sale or not. He is a great admirer of Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Butler and is a good judge of books. I was emboldened to tell him about you. I told him I [illegible] if your essays would have a big sale, but I told him I thought they should. Anyhow he told me he would like to see some 60000 or 70000 words of your M.S.S and he would read it and publish it if it passed muster. I told him that I would write you and ask you to send them to me and I would re read them and put the best one on top so he need not read the others if he did not like that one. So you arrange them as you think they merit and I will send them to him. He is going to sail for Europe in about ten days to be gone about six weeks so probably you had better send them as soon as possible. I am to speak at a religious symposium in Louisville on the 16th of Dec. and in Nashville on the 17th. It might be that one of the places might be near enough for you to see me. In Louisville I shall be at one of the best hotels. In Nashville I shall stay at the Hermitage / Very Truly / Clarence Darrow'', with an underline beneath his signature. Two page letter measures 7.25'' x 10.25''. Some toning. Very good.
Clarence Darrow Autograph Letter Signed -- Darrow Helps a Fellow Lawyer Publish His Writings on Prohibition
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