AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on the Charm of Tennessee

Brook, Indiana, 26 May n.y.. Letter. Creases from folding, otherwise Near Fine. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on 8-1/2" x 11" Hazelden Farm stationery to an unknown recipient trying to recall something he had previously said. In full: "I don't believe I can do it all over again. I think I said something about like the following: I never saw the South as I had imagined it until I visited Tennessee. For the first time I found in the flavor of daily life a combination of the modern spirit with the old-time regard for polite ceremonials. The old houses spaciously set apart and each sheltering a hospitality as bountiful as it was unaffected seemed more like real American homes than any I had seen. I knew I couldn't do it."