1989. A long, informative and entertaining letter, mostly about not writing, from the year prior to the publication of The Barnum Museum. He does discuss the author Joseph Skorvecky, and David Shield's Dead Languages, but he says, "In general I play ball with my three-year-old son, rake in my minuscule garden, worry about my roof, and things like that," having just "come out from under a murderous term of full-time teaching," he is "trying to remember what it is I'm supposed to be doing with my life." Millhauser would win a World Fantasy Award for his story "The Illusionist" the following year, and the Pulitzer Prize for Martin Dressler in 1997. The recipient has made several notes in the top margin; else the letter is fine. [#036719] $350