Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Daily Dose

From Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell Perkins, edited by John Hall Wheelock

PLENTY

"I am sending you a life of Thackeray*, and you will find that in the literary world of that day there was plenty of envy, malice and hatred."

From a letter to Taylor Caldwell, dated Dec. 31, 1946

*The Showman of Vanity Fair, by Lionel Stevenson

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