EFR/4/1/3 - Typescript letters from Tiffany Thayer - 1949

Thayer says he is sending EFR a book he wrote "which tells whether I am a Jew or not”; the University of London (unlike the Library of Congress) is unwilling to pay its subscription to Doubt Magazine, and also says that EFR should try to place Doubt in the major Briti...

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Main Creator: Blish, James
Other Creators: Evans, Idrisyn Oliver
Archive level description: Item
Physical Description:10 letters; 3 courtesy copy letters; 22pp
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Thayer says he is sending EFR a book he wrote "which tells whether I am a Jew or not”; the University of London (unlike the Library of Congress) is unwilling to pay its subscription to Doubt Magazine, and also says that EFR should try to place Doubt in the major British and Irish public libraries, and he encloses a copy of a letter to the Goldsmiths' Librarian; asks EFR to help him obtain various books including Hutton's Caste in India; Sam Youd [John Christopher] and his wife's photograph appearing in Doubt Magazine; Fortean Society membership and correspondence; Thayer mentions including in Doubt an article by EFR on Ezra Pound; encloses copy of letter from Society member Garry Davis; encloses copy of letter to Ronald Thornton of Académie Internationale; Thayer mentions work on writing a novel called Mona Lisa; and remarks on EFR's concern over the amount of work involved in collecting British Fortean Society subscriptions.

Date:1949
Reference Number:EFR/4/1/3