Autograph Letter Signed,

"University of Chicago," February 8, 1935. 8vo. 2 pages (recto and verso); together with a holograph addressed envelope (front only), bearing 2 canceled stamps and a Chicago postmark. To Estelle B. Schneider, in Kansas City, Missouri, responding to her letter and reaction to his recently published novel "Heaven's My Destination": "You exaggerate. I didn't cut each episode to match a scene in the gospels. It never occurred to me: that about the money changers in the temple; of the casting-out devils; nor the adoption of the child. Now you've found it [and] I rather like it. Perhaps you know the Old Subconscious that does so much work for us. The brothel episode, in fact, rather grew from an episode at the beginning of Don Q. What you have got hold of however is that all Unworldlys are apt to clash with the Worldys on about the same spots: Money, Sacred and Profane Love, and so on."; Wilder goes on to defend the novel's depiction of Kansas City and surroundings; "On the occasions I passed a night in Kansas City I took a walk at night perhaps the region looks smarter by day and I did it a great injustice.". Signed by Author(s). F. Soft cover.