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WOOLRICH, Cornell (1903–1968). Typed Letter Signed (“Cornell”) to Mr. H. N. Swanson. New York, New York, June 1, 1943. One page, 8vo (229 x 152 mm), on Hotel Marseilles stationery. Staple hole to upper corner. Woolrich expresses to his literary agent that he feels “pretty badly letdown” that Swanson could not get an offer on “Black Angel” or the “Shoes” book. “I fought Simon and Schuster so I could have you for an agent; left them for that reason, fought Lippincott twice, for the same reason. Now what’ve I got? Plenty of nothing.” Swanson did succeed in obtaining an offer for “Black Angel” in that same year from Doubleday, Doran. It was later adapted into a film in 1946 by Roy Chanslor. Woolrich disliked this version so much that he told Mark Van Doren after seeing it at the theatre “it took me two or three days to get over it. All I could keep thinking of in the dark was: Is that what I wasted my whole life at?”