Margaret Mitchell 1941 Typed Letter Signed

American author (1900–1949) whose single novel, Gone With the Wind, became one of the best-sellers of all time and spawned one of the most fabled movies in Hollywood history. She died after being struck by a speeding car at the age of 48.

Typed letter signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh”, July 1, 1941, personal stationery, sent from Atlanta, Georgia, to Judge Leonard Harl McMahan of Salem, Oregon, in full:

Thank you for the postcard pictures of your beautiful Oregon country. I was interested in the comments you wrote on the back of them. When I looked at the graded, paved and banked road with guard rails, which you remember as an Indian trail it made me realize how young our country is. It set me to thinking of the many shaded red roads on which I went horseback riding, which are now hard-surfaced and without trees and ugly with hot dog stands. I am not so terribly old but I feel old when I remark upon such matters and the younger generation looks respectfully at me as if they were listening to a female Daniel Boone describing what a virgin Kentucky looked like.

I hope you are well and that you have a fine summer.

The letter has been professionally encapsulated (fully reversible). Light wear.