^Lot 1028 Groucho Marx

TLS signed “Groucho,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, December 13, 1960. Letter to director Billy Wilder at Samuel Goldwyn Studios. In part: “This really has nothing to do with what this letter is about, but I just read in a cattle magazine that one can now deduct fertilizer on one’s income tax. This is a good thing to know if you’re ever at a Hollywood party. I received the piece about you, taken from the Manchester Guardian…and the enormously funny letter from Nunnally, and I’d like to show them both to my brothers…I hope that after the holidays I can get a chance to hear the forty pages you told me you have written. Most of my pleasures today are vicarious, and this could be another one of them.” In fine condition, with two punch holes to top edge, an office notation to left side, and some light toning along top edge. Wilder was indeed in discussions over a new Marx Brothers comedy, with a proposed title of A Day At the U.N, but abandoned the project after the death of Chico Marx in 1961.