Forum Title: LIZZIE BORDEN SOCIETY Topic Area: Second Street Second-Hand Shop Topic Name: Pearson letters  

1. "Pearson letters"
Posted by harry on Jan-8th-04 at 11:17 PM

Ran across this item for sale:

"Pearson, Edmund. Eight Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed on Lizzie Borden. 1926-1937 Nineteen pages to a Mrs. Case, apparently a writer for the Hartford Courant and an afficionado of murder cases.These are long and very interesting letters in which Pearson comments on his current writings and on various murders, notably the Hall-Mills case and, of course, the Lizzie Borden case. Several letters refer to Lizzie Borden and to the publication in 1937 of THE TRIAL OF LIZZIE BORDEN, which Pearson edited. He gives an account of his first visit to Lizzie's house in Fall River. In another letter he writes of Dorothy Thompson's and Alexander Woollcott's reaction to the Borden book. The sprightly and informative style which made Pearson's books on crime and other subjects so appealing is in abundant evidence in this fine collection, which is also accompanied by a photograph of Pearson.
Price: USD 1,750.00 other currencies   order no. 589"

Pretty expensive.

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2. "Re: Pearson letters"
Posted by Doug on Jan-9th-04 at 1:23 PM
In response to Message #1.

Considering many authors I have read on the Borden case I enjoy Edmund Pearson's prose the best of all.

3. "Re: Pearson letters"
Posted by Kat on Jan-9th-04 at 3:57 PM
In response to Message #1.

Okay, thanks I'm hooked.
I know how to spend my new lottery wind-fall!
I want everything on the site, and the Dorothy Sayers, please?