BELLOW, SAUL. Two items sent to translator Shozo Tokunaga: Autograph Letter Signed *...

BELLOW, SAUL. Two items sent to translator Shozo Tokunaga: Autograph Letter Signed * Typescript, unsigned, with over 200 lines of holograph notes. The letter, hoping his notes have not arrived too late, and anticipating a trip to Japan in June to accept an invitation to [the 37th Annual Congress of] PEN [International, held in Seoul on the 29th] in June, 1970. 1 page, 8vo, "University of Chicago" stationery; faint scattered foxing, horizontal fold. The typescript, clarifying the meaning of various words and phrases from the text of Bellow's "Leaving the Yellow House" and "The Old System" [probably for a Japanese translation of his anthology, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, 1968]. 18 pages, tall 4to, onionskin paper, written on rectos only; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. Chicago, 3 December 1969...