1991-1992. Six pieces of correspondence (4 autograph letters signed and 2 typed letters signed) from Burroughs to his publisher; along with a file of signed letters of praise for Burroughs from Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Rick Bass, Edward Hoagland, Geoffrey Wolff, and Scott Russell Sanders (plus a postcard from Donald Hall, declining to comment). Franklin Burroughs won the John Burroughs Medal for his book Confluence. These letters pertain to the Houghton Mifflin paperback release of his earlier book, the collection of essays Billy Watson's Croker Sack. Burroughs' letters are much involved with corrections for the re-issue (including forwarding a list that was handed to him by a stranger), as well as responding (not always positively) to the "praise" the book received -- although he also thanks his publisher for sending him Robert Pyle's Wintergreen, another John Burroughs Medal winner. Both Bass's and Wolff's glowing words were too long to use in full (and, in Bass's case, includes a swipe at chain book stores). Harrison, after the submitted "blurb," adds "Bet he could write a fine novel as he appears to understand everything." Hoagland, off the record, finds the book too short, "just as a book is now accepted at being 150 pages, a wilderness is accepted at being two miles across, instead of twenty." More from Bass: "This book will move from heart to heart, throughout the country, for a hundred years, or longer: for as long as there are books and readers." The lot is fine. [#036679] SOLD