Letters, 1936-1939 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Letters, 1936 Sept. 1 - 1939 Dec. 6, from Mitchell in Atlanta, Ga., to George B. Ward, in and former mayor of Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala., regarding the testimony Ward's mother gave in 1883 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital. Mitchell regarded the testimony "undoubtedly the most perfect ... picture of a long gone day," and states that if she had seen the testimony earlier, she would not have needed to research so much for Gone With the Wind. There are also letters regarding copying the testimony, later entitled "War Memories", Mitchell's health, Michell's receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937, Mitchell sending "War Memories" to George Cukor, to aid him in guiding the direction of Gone With the Wind in 1937, especially in the relationship between slave and mistress, and other matters