Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote by Truman Capote

Author:Truman Capote
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Literary, Literary Collections, Letters
ISBN: 9780345803092
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-15T07:48:19.867000+00:00

TO JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN

As from—

300-½ E. 65th St.

October, 1955

Dear M—

Despite the (to me) startlingly unjust contents of your Portofino card, I hopefully assume it was intended as some sort of good-friend, stern-critic comment.312 If it was meant otherwise, and your words were weighed, then frankly, dear-heart, I don’t know what the hell you are talking about. You have, and will always, a most particular place in my affections. If I have dissapointed [sic] you as an artist (as you suggest), that is one thing; but certainly as a person, as a friend, I have done nothing to deserve your misguided candor. If memory serves, this is the second time you have rounded on me; on the previous occasion I correctly deciphered the clumsy hand of Mr. Goyen. But I am not a detective by profession, and so shall have to leave the clues to this latest attack untraced. However, rest [assured] in the knowledge that you are on the popular side; my stock in all quarters is very low, and if the numbers of folk I have apparently offended were laid end to end they would girdle the globe.

As for Jack (about whom you are so bitter), Jack is Irish. He talks. He talks for the fun of it, and for the moment: and no one is immune—me (least of all), his family, his friends, himself. You know that. And really, dear, I have to laugh: I think you’re more than a bit of an ass, a jejeune [sic] jerk, if you start getting riled over Dunphy’s little sallies at this point.

I’ve had a quiet, working summer. Moreover, I lost thirty pounds: am just a svelte bag of golden bones. We’re going back to the city next week.

Please reconsider, and write your perhaps unworthy, but still loving, very loving—

T

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