Upton Sinclair to Frank Harris

Extent:
3 p.
Scope and content:

[Gives warm review of Contemporary Portraits; likes the portraits of Davidson and Burton; gives low opinion of [Thomas] Carlyle; responds to request to judge Harris' mind or limitations by wondering if it is a limitation to be too catholic of too sophisticated; attacks the work and character of Swinburne and [James MacNeill] Whistler; considers The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"one of the most vicious books in the world"; gives ideas on greatness in an artist; believes he has a strange double nature because he can "pray with Jesus and dine with Oscar Wilde, and do both convincingly"; gives mixed review of Unpath'd Waters; sends first pages of manuscript Dead Hand; predicts it will not sell because the public is preoccupied with he war; expresses interest in Harris' opinion.]

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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