1979. A densely worded autograph postcard signed, in which Ozick agrees to let words of praise she wrote about Nina Schneider's novel (unnamed, but The Woman Who Lived in a Prologue) be used for publicity, while also championing an unpublished novel by Norma Rosen (unnamed, but At the Center, later published by Houghton Mifflin in 1982: "She is one of the most penetrating writers alive, and, amazingly, has an unpublished manuscript of great power."). On a more personal note, Ozick remarks that she was surprised to see that she had written to Schneider just two days after her own mother had entered the hospital, where she died a month later. "I don't understand how I could have found any adjectives during that time. "The prose of letters always seems inappropriate to me when seen in print -- any inadequacy is then made naked --." About 230 words. Publisher's notations on verso, else fine. [#036725] $400