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SIGNED "Ayn," with ORIGINAL Air Mail envelope. Rand blames Mayer for the dropped adaptation of 'We the Living' "He is afraid of producing an anti-Soviet play" Typed Letter Signed Ayn, two pages, 7.25 x 10.5, October 14, 1937. Letter to Marcella Bannett Rabwin of Selznick International Pictures, in full: "I was delighted to hear from you and to know that you haven t forgotten me. You say that you have been in the midst of furnishing a house, and I am precisely in the same position right now. I have spent this summer in Connecticut and have just moved back to New York. We have taken an unfurnished apartment and are now driven mad with problems of furniture, of which we have two beds and a table at the present moment. But the rest is coming, and, so far, we are very pleased with our new place. It seems much nicer than the furnished apartments one can get in New York. It looks as if we ll stay here for some time to come. There are no immediate prospects for our return to Hollywood,…

We the Living is the first novel published by the American author Ayn Rand. Originally completed in 1930, it was first published in 1936 by Macmillan Publishers. The novel is a depiction of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand’s criticism of the Soviet system. It follows the story of Kira Argounova, a young woman who struggles for her individuality in a collectivized society.

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