Author: Farrar, John C. (1896-1974). American editor and publisher. Founder of Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Title: Typed Letter to John Hyde Preston Signed by Publisher John C. Farrar Referring to Preston's "a Gentleman Rebel: The Exploits of Anthony Wayne".
Description: New York: September 24, 1928. 1928. - 53 words typed on an 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide cream-colored sheet of Doubleday, Doran and Company letterhead. Signed "John Farrar". There is some very minor foxing at bottom right. Folded once for mailing. Fine.

Farrar writes to author John Hyde Preston referring to Preston's book "A Gentleman Rebel: The Exploits of Anthony Wayne" [Farrar & Rinehart, 1930]. "I am glad to know that the book is coming along nicely". He asks Preston to send him the manuscript at Doubleday before a proposed meeting between the two men.

John C. Farrar [1896-1974] was an American editor and publisher. After editing The Bookman up to its 1927 purchase by Seward Collins, Farrar worked for two years at Doubleday, Doran and Company. By the time Preston's book was published he had founded Farrar & Rinehart [1929] with Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr. and Frederick R. Rinehart. After war work in World War II he founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He also contributed to the successful establishment of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Fine .

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