ALS, with envelope and newspaper article

Springfield, KY, 1931. Single folded sheet, creases where previously folded, three small tears at folds. ROBERTS, Elizabeth, (1881-1941) American novelist and poet, to FIELD, Rachel (1894-1942), the American novelist and poet perhaps best known for Hitty, her first hundred years, which won the Newberry Medal in 1930. A most important and informative letter in which she metnions friends Julia Peterkin, a Pulitzer prize winning writer and Doris Ulmann, the celebrated photographer (Roll, Jordan, Roll, written by Peterkin and photographed by Ulmann, was hailed as one of the first books to depict African Americans as people rather than stereotypes).

-ALS, with envelope and newspaper article. To Rachel Field. Springfield, Ky.

-“My dear Rachel Field,
I had a delightful note from you a long time ago. It was not forgotten in all this while ... When you wrote, you were staying in a most enchanting place, where one took a lantern and made his own way and his own light if he went forth at night. And somebody was reading aloud “The Great Meadow.” I had your two books, “Points East”, and “The Pointed People.” The first I found quite of New England - some concentric essence that is continually in contact with a far-flung world, and continually withdrawn from it. The pictures in the little book are delightful. Some time I’d like to ask you to picture a book for me. Many thanks for both books and for the good note that came with them. I hear by the papers that Doris (Ullmann), has gone to South Carolina with Mrs.(Julia) Peterkin. I know of Doris’s accident from letters from her while she was in the hospital. I am glad that she is able to get away for a time ... With my continual good will, Elizabeth Roberts.”.