A rare typed letter signed ("T. Wms.," in pencil) by Tennessee Williams to his first analyst, psychiatrist Dr. Lawrence Kubie

1959. Near Fine. Typed Tennesee Williams letter signed ("T. Wms.," in pencil) to his first analyst, psychiatrist Dr. Lawrence Kubie, Miami, 18 March 1959, 2 pages, 8vo, double-spaced, on both sides of a sheet of stationery of The Towers hotel, typed in small and large capital letters, dated by Williams in pencil and with an eight-word postscript."... I was often tempted to call you during the rehearsal period [for Sweet Bird of Youth] in New York ... I didn't call because I was atraid that I had forfeited your concern for me, by my stubborn resistance and running away from our work. I managed to stay on my feet till the day after the opening. Then I came down with the flu or a virus or just collapsed with exhaustion and fever. . . so l pulled myself a little together and took a plane to Miami... The fever's gone, now, but the exhaustion stays. I can barely write this letter. Let alone write on the film-plays that dear little Audrey [Wood, his agent and Sam Spiegel [Hollywood producer] and so forth are expecting me to turn out like hot-cakes for them... You see I am still full of piss and vinegar even if I am not still energetic... Well, I got through this thing which I felt I had to get through, and maybe now I will be willing and able to make another effort to salvage the me that doesn't live on paper or stage. I wonder!.. If you are going to be with such a hospital [a psychiatric hospital], I would like to know about it, just in case I finally have to face the necessity of that kind of help. If I have to, I would like it to be with you. You are one of the two or three wisest men that I have known in my life, and probably know me better than anyone else.