Mann, Thomas — TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
Pacific Palisades. Single-spaced typed letter on 8-1/2" x 11" personal stationery to Philip Blair Rice, editor of THE KENYON REVIEW, thanking him for sending an issue of the periodical "with the article by R. P. Blackmur about my novel 'Doctor Faustus'.... But it is my desire to tell you that the repeated perusal of the study has given me great satisfaction, and that, quite apart from its topic, I admire Mr. Blackmur's work as a highly distinguished critical achievement." Mann mentions Blair's own essay on Mann's book also published in THE KENYON REVIEW: "'The Merging Parallels,' a study I have not forgotten. Together with this new comment it is included in my collection of personal and public reactions to this work of my old age which is particularly close to my heart.". Near Fine
