1990-1992. One typed letter signed and four typed notes signed, all regarding the 1992 paperback reissue of her 1946 novel, The Street (initially slated for 1991). In the initial letter, Petry declines, at length, to write an introduction to the new edition, calling introductions to contemporary novels "condescending" and an "unforgivable intrusion." She denies that her novel (published 45 years prior) needs historical context "unless, of course, the reader has been living on another planet...." (The edition was issued without introduction.) A follow-up note returns the author questionnaire (not present); the final three notes all express an appreciation for being sent advance copies or actual copies of the new edition, as well as her delight in how the edition turned out. The letters are folded for mailing; else fine. The Street won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award when first published in 1946, the first time the prize was given to an African American woman. [#036729] SOLD