Little Orphan Annie Creator, Harold Gray Signed Letter & Three Personal Little Orphan Annie Christmas Cards SOLD
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Great grouping of one typed signed letter and three Christmas Cards to James A. Kehl, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh & Author, from Little Orphan Annie creator Harold Gray.
The letter dated 20 September 1949 is addressed to James A. Kehl, Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh by Gray in response to the article written by him regarding Little Orphan Annie. In the letter, Gray professes the Kehl, “have been very kind to me”, and defends “our little jam with the Louisville Courier-Journal” and that “a tinge of politics lends a controversial zest, now and then.” A very interesting letter. Also, three Little Orphan Annie Christmas cards to Dr. Kehl from Winifred & Harold Gray.
TLS on Gray & Gray letterhead, 7.25” x 10.5” signed “Harold Gray” Card (1) Merry Christmas and a Happy Fifty-Two, blank inside. 5” x 7”; Card (2) Postcard, “A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy fifty-Six …” Hand-addressed, 6” x 9” and Card (3), “It’s the Same Every Year! And a Very Happy ’62 inside. 6” x 8”. All in Fine condition.
Harold Lincoln Gray (1894 – 1968) creator of Little Orphan Annie, Harold Gray is regarded as the first strip cartoonist to use the medium as a vehicle for political philosophy. Gray's gift for narrative and characterization kept the strip popular at a much broader level during its lone history, and established it as a part of American folk culture that has outlasted its author.
In any case, it was not his visual style that sustained Gray in a career that was to earn him more than five million dollars. Rather, it was his inspired creation of a heroine whom he described as "tougher than hell, with a heart of gold, and a fast left, who can take care of herself because she has to". Long after Gray's fulminations against gasoline rationing, income taxes, the welfare state, and Roosevelts New Deal have become obscure episodes needing footnotes, his engaging little survivor will remain a vital figure in American folklore.
The letter dated 20 September 1949 is addressed to James A. Kehl, Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh by Gray in response to the article written by him regarding Little Orphan Annie. In the letter, Gray professes the Kehl, “have been very kind to me”, and defends “our little jam with the Louisville Courier-Journal” and that “a tinge of politics lends a controversial zest, now and then.” A very interesting letter. Also, three Little Orphan Annie Christmas cards to Dr. Kehl from Winifred & Harold Gray.
TLS on Gray & Gray letterhead, 7.25” x 10.5” signed “Harold Gray” Card (1) Merry Christmas and a Happy Fifty-Two, blank inside. 5” x 7”; Card (2) Postcard, “A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy fifty-Six …” Hand-addressed, 6” x 9” and Card (3), “It’s the Same Every Year! And a Very Happy ’62 inside. 6” x 8”. All in Fine condition.
Harold Lincoln Gray (1894 – 1968) creator of Little Orphan Annie, Harold Gray is regarded as the first strip cartoonist to use the medium as a vehicle for political philosophy. Gray's gift for narrative and characterization kept the strip popular at a much broader level during its lone history, and established it as a part of American folk culture that has outlasted its author.
In any case, it was not his visual style that sustained Gray in a career that was to earn him more than five million dollars. Rather, it was his inspired creation of a heroine whom he described as "tougher than hell, with a heart of gold, and a fast left, who can take care of herself because she has to". Long after Gray's fulminations against gasoline rationing, income taxes, the welfare state, and Roosevelts New Deal have become obscure episodes needing footnotes, his engaging little survivor will remain a vital figure in American folklore.
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