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Pearson, Edmund. Eight Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed, totalling 19pages, 1926-1937, to a Mrs. Case, apparently a writer for the HartfordCourant and an afficionado of murder cases.
These are long and very interesting letters in which Pearson comments on his current writings and on various murders, notably the Hall-Mills case and, of course, the Lizzie Borden case. He writes in 1926, "Every day I believe more strongly that Mrs. Hall and the Stevenses are telling the truth, and that they are victims of a malicious and stupid persecution." Ten years later he writes of meeting Mrs. Hall and of being convinced "that at the time of the murders she was two miles away. You have to have long range artillery to kill at that distance." Several letters refer to Lizzie Borden and to the publication in 1937 of The Trial of Lizzie Borden, which Pearson edited. He gives an account of his first visit to Lizzie's house in Fall River. In another letter he writes of Dorothy Thompson's and Alexander Woollcott's reaction to the Borden book. In a 1928 letter he comments on the prospect of meeting S.S. Van Dine: "...I am in the uncomfortable position of thinking that his stories are very much over-rated. I cannot bear his ass of a detective, nor think that he is much of a detective, anyhow, since he lets pretty nearly the whole family be slaughtered, while he is making his epigrams and comments." A 1937 letter recounts a story about Dorothy Sayers' fear that her husband would attribute a black eye that she got in a fall as the result of a fight in a night club! In one letter Pearson tells Mrs. Case that "you are my most valued correspondent in this country," and the richness of this group of letters confirms the esteem in which Pearson must have held her. The sprightly and informative style which made Pearson's books on crime and other subjects so appealing is in abundant evidence in this fine collection, which is also accompanied by a photograph of Pearson.
Price: USD 2,250.00