FROST, ROBERT. Eight autograph letters signed (one "Robert," the rest "Robert Frost") to Herschel Brickell in New York; Amherst, Mass., South Shaftsbury, Vt., and New York, 16 January 1929-17 January 1939. Together 17 pages, 8vo, two letters slightly browned, another with creases, with two stamped addressed envelopes and with two letters from Frost's wife Elinor to Brickell . "IT IS A PERTURBING THING WITH ME TO BE HAVING A BOOK PUBLISHED". Herschel Brickell was a noted book reviewer of his day (for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s and for the New York Post from the mid-1930s); in the late 1920s and the early 1930s he was head of the trade department of Henry Holt and Co., Frost's publishers. 16 January 1929 (Frost reports on buying a new farm): "...We must tell [Frost scholar Sydney] Cox that not satisfied with having organized poems or ideas or whatever it is he thinks I have organized, I am going into the business of organizing streams as something more definite and measurable...Your success with West-Running Brook [published 1928] has done this for us..." 30 November: "Of course give any permission you please like that. You know what's good for my cause. I'm only too glad to have 'Christmas Trees' singled out for attention..." (It was also the first Frost Christmas card poem.) [no date, probably 1930]: "...I'll do differently if I ever get round to another book. I mean I'll start a year ahead of the printer to shape up the manuscript. The sheets for my autograph have come [probably for the 1000 signed copies of Collected Poems , 1930] and I shall be at them till the last minute. I ought to know my own name by the time we leave for Montreal at three this afternoon, but I shan't know it. I shan't know which end my head is on..." 27 June 1930: "The printing of the book [ Collected Poems ] still drags on with the Spiral Press...I have had this business [of a lost poem for the book] on my mind for six months now and I'm so sick of it I feel as if I never wanted to see my own works again. It is a perturbing thing with me to be having a book published...How little fuss Updyke [the printer] made over West-Running Brook . I can see the book is going to be too late for the season in England...The entanglement with them [his English publishers Longmans] has become a distasteful mess that I should value your advice about getting out of. Perhaps the Collected Poems had better wait another year -- at least till next spring both here and in England..." 2 February 1932: "...one of my earlier firsts...went at auction lately for two hundred and twenty-five dollars. To be sure that had a small inscription in it. Let's you and me go on the street selling inscriptions instead of apples...Collectors must have their inscriptions though the heavens fall on the stock exchange..." An excellent and lengthy (for Frost letters on the market) correspondence. Not in Selected Letters , ed. L. Thompson, and apparently unpublished. (10)
FROST, ROBERT. Eight autograph letters signed (one "Robert," the rest "Robert Frost") to Herschel Brickell in New York; Amherst, Mass., South Shaftsbury, Vt., and New York, 16 January 1929-17 January 1939. Together 17 pages, 8vo, two letters slightly browned, another with creases, with two stamped addressed envelopes and with two letters from Frost's wife Elinor to Brickell . "IT IS A PERTURBING THING WITH ME TO BE HAVING A BOOK PUBLISHED". Herschel Brickell was a noted book reviewer of his day (for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s and for the New York Post from the mid-1930s); in the late 1920s and the early 1930s he was head of the trade department of Henry Holt and Co., Frost's publishers. 16 January 1929 (Frost reports on buying a new farm): "...We must tell [Frost scholar Sydney] Cox that not satisfied with having organized poems or ideas or whatever it is he thinks I have organized, I am going into the business of organizing streams as something more definite and measurable...Your success with West-Running Brook [published 1928] has done this for us..." 30 November: "Of course give any permission you please like that. You know what's good for my cause. I'm only too glad to have 'Christmas Trees' singled out for attention..." (It was also the first Frost Christmas card poem.) [no date, probably 1930]: "...I'll do differently if I ever get round to another book. I mean I'll start a year ahead of the printer to shape up the manuscript. The sheets for my autograph have come [probably for the 1000 signed copies of Collected Poems , 1930] and I shall be at them till the last minute. I ought to know my own name by the time we leave for Montreal at three this afternoon, but I shan't know it. I shan't know which end my head is on..." 27 June 1930: "The printing of the book [ Collected Poems ] still drags on with the Spiral Press...I have had this business [of a lost poem for the book] on my mind for six months now and I'm so sick of it I feel as if I never wanted to see my own works again. It is a perturbing thing with me to be having a book published...How little fuss Updyke [the printer] made over West-Running Brook . I can see the book is going to be too late for the season in England...The entanglement with them [his English publishers Longmans] has become a distasteful mess that I should value your advice about getting out of. Perhaps the Collected Poems had better wait another year -- at least till next spring both here and in England..." 2 February 1932: "...one of my earlier firsts...went at auction lately for two hundred and twenty-five dollars. To be sure that had a small inscription in it. Let's you and me go on the street selling inscriptions instead of apples...Collectors must have their inscriptions though the heavens fall on the stock exchange..." An excellent and lengthy (for Frost letters on the market) correspondence. Not in Selected Letters , ed. L. Thompson, and apparently unpublished. (10)
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