Fine content Margaret Mitchell signed letter on the result of her recently published novel Gone With the Wind : "these days there are not enough hours in the twenty-four ... I have often wondered during this last strange year how any writer who produces a successful first novel ever finds time to write a second one!" de Margaret Mitchell - October 14, 1937

Atlanta, Georgia, October 14, 1937. 7" x 10.5". "Typed letter signed ""Peggy Mitchell Marsh"" in blue ink, 1 page, 7"" x 10.5"", October 14, 1937, on her personal letterhead, Atlanta, Georgia., addressed to ""Dear Doctor Boland."" Minor handling marks and creases, expected horizontal mailing folds, otherwise near fine condition.
Mitchell writes, in part: ""I thank you and Mrs. Harper for your compliment in thinking that I could write a scenario of Dr. Long's achievements. But I am not the person to do it, as I know less than nothing about the technique of movie writing ... Realizing my complete ignorance, I refused to have anything to do with the scenario of my own novel ... To be quite honest, if it lay in my power to write scenarios I would not be able to do one about Doctor Long, because these days there are not enough hours in the twenty-four for me to attend to all the pressing business matters, foreign contracts, mail, editors et cetera which crowd in upon me. I have often wondered during this last strange year how any writer who produces a successful first novel ever finds time to write a second one!""
Ironically, Mitchell never did publish a second book. She was struck by a speeding car as she crossed a street on her way to see the British film, ""A Canterbury Tale"" in August of 1949. She died five days later from her injuries without regaining consciousness.
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