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A typed draft speech for a symposium on newspaper training signed ("Sinclair Lewis"), 2 pages, with hand-written corrections in ink, together with a typed letter signed (same) to an individual requesting his speech, Mr. Hills, 1 page, Harcourt, Brace, New York, September 3, 1925, with hand-written corrections and a hand-written post-script to the bottom, presumably to Lewis' secretary, requesting that it be sent back for further editing. From the present speech, Lewis actually disagrees with the theme of the symposium, specifically that newspaper-writing is a merit to future creative writing, a stance that reflects his own early experiences in the publishing world. "It is true that many of the most admirable creative writers have been journalists . . . [but] they might not have done quite as well, perhaps far better, had they not spent merely half an hour in chronicling the misadventure of Mrs. Eliza Stebbins, who bit her husband, but instead have known Mrs. Stebbins longer and more intimately, and thus more poignantly have realized the magnificent tragedy of that biting." Repaired and rebacked tear down the center of all three pages (presumably as a discarded draft); otherwise fine.


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