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Lincoln Stevens, Mrs Tait Butler FrankBiblio.com

19672897New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1967. Stated second impression. Hardcover in dust jacket. 317 pp. Wear to the jacket with rubbing fading and some foxing. Some chipping/tearing around corners and edges mostly on spine ends. Small piece missing on the back top left corner. Thomas McDade's author of The Annals of Murder peronal copy with his bookplate and notes in pencil. With two TLS from the author in response to a letter from McDade. In McDade's letter dated February 6 1968 he starts by congratulating Lincoln on the book and then admonishes her lack of an index or footnotes. McDade brings up "the pigeon killing episode on page 56" and asks "did I overlook that in previous readings on this case" He brings up some other discrepancies and typos in her writing goes on to congratulate Lincoln again and invites her to a meeting of the "Society of Connoisseurs in Murder" in New York. In Lincoln's response she says "I do hope this letter reaches you. Alas I can't decipher your signature" and then writes to "warn your secretary to type your name below that charming dashing uptilted and totally illegible name!" She then recognizes some of McDade's criticisms; "The books is full of typos; also of copywriter's meddlings." Lincoln brings up the "pigeon killing episode" and says everything in the book had been vetted "except in such instances as I clearly said "This is suppostitious " or "this is hearsay." Later she acknowledges McDade's comments about the lack of index. "You make me feel that some day when I'm a book away from Lizzie I should dig out my still remaining bushels of notes get them back into order make and index and an appendix consisting of full annotation and persuade a publisher to put out a limited edition for Borden buffs. Oh God what an exhausting notion--no come to consider it you only make me feel that I should feel that way." In her second later she starts with "The pigeons bit has continued to bug me." She then lays out her sources and her reasons for including it in the book. She finishes the letter with "You put your finger on my Achilles heel--those pigeons. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown

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