Milt Gross: In Response to a Mislaid Letter

Here's a little souvenir for a fan, Donald, from cartoonist Milt Gross. The AbeBooks seller Peruse the Stacks identifies the two figures as Dave Tchitchik and J.R. the Wonder Dog, characters from Dave's Delicatessen, Gross's newspaper comic strip. (In a Gross animated short, J.R. the Wonder Dog appears with Count Screwloose, from another of the cartoonist's strips.) Dave's Delicatessen ran between 1931 and 1935, allowing us to approximately date this card. Gross apologizes for some delay, as Donald's "letter got mislaid."

"H'ya / Donald /ol' kid/ This is a /little late / but your letter / got mislaid / Sincerely / Milt Gross"

Milt Gross
AbeBooks accessed May 7, 2026

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Milt Gross
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Polly Rowles's Copy of Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner's prewar "Letter from Paris" columns for The New Yorker were collected in 1972, edited many decades after the fact by Irving Drutman. The resulting volume is Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939. Jane Grant, who established the magazine with her husband Harold Ross, the founding editor, and financial backer Raoul Fleischmann, received some of her friend Flanner's letters and recruited her to the magazine in its first year. The author, who also wrote under the pseudonym Genêt, inscribed a copy of the book in 1973 to actress Polly Rowles at Sardi's.

Janet Flanner
AbeBooks listing accessed April 20, 2024

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Janet Flanner
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Polly Rowles for Hanes, 1983

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