SINGER, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991). Polish-Jewish Writer.
Letter Signed ("Isaac B. Singer"), the text in another hand, to Rabbi Wolf in Los Angeles, 1 page 4to, 209 West 86th Street, New York, 21 November 1968.
Discussing his travelling and speaking plans. Singer, whose early works evoke the vanished world of Polish Jewry with a Dickensian richness, and who later gave a universal meaning to the dilemma of the traditional Jew in a secular world, was always prepared to lecture on and discuss his works at public gatherings. Despite his longevity, his letters are uncommon.
". . . I intend to stop in Topeka, Kansas where I'm going to speak to the psychiatrists sand psychoanalysts on January 22. I will see to it that I am in Los Angeles Sunday morning January 26 , or perhaps I will arrive Saturday night . . . I will be happy to have lunch with you and your friends. I would appreciate if you would reserve for me a hotel in the neighborhood and to let me know its address. As I said , I will let you know the exact time of my arrival . . ."
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