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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY BRITISH AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR DORIS MUDIE.

1921 · rif. 35634 — Manchester U.K.: 26th June 1921. 1921. Good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling one side of a sheet of "Mudie's Manchester Limited" 8 inch high by 5 inch wide cream letterhead. Mudie has inserted "Library" after "Mudie's" in the heading and has added "England" to the address. Signed "Miss Doris Mudie". The date of reply to the letter has been stamped below the address & there is a small tear to the top edge & another to the left edge of the letter. There are several pin pricks to the top left corner & 2 small tears in the address have been repaired. Folded twice for mailing. Together with a carbon copy of the recipient's typed reply. Good. Mudie writes to the editor of the New York World asking about the possibility of setting up an American lecture tour about the postwar condition of Central Europe. "During 1920 I had recourse to travel over all the European belligerent states and to administer relief in the new Republic of Czecho-Slovakia. I gathered much information political and economic while there and subsequently in the enemy states Austria Germany and Hungary". The reply from James Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau on behalf of the New York World editor notes that the subject would be of interest to Americans but that setting up any lecture series would have to be preceded by a meeting since interest depends so much on the personality of the lecturer. Doris Mudie was a British author and translator. She translated and edited with Elizabeth Hill "The Letters of Dostoyevsky to His Wife" 1930 and "The Letters of Lenin" 1937. Mel Brooks' screenplay for "The Twelve Chairs" was based on an English translation by Mudie of the novel "Sitting on Diamonds" by Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Manchester, U.K.: 26th June, 1921. unknown