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MITCHELL, Margaret. Typed letter signed ("Margaret") to Herschel Brickell, Atlanta, 6 July 1937. 3 pages, small folio, single-spaced, on her stationery with name embossed in blue at top of each sheet, usual folds, with stamped, addressed envelope . "IT'S NO FUN 'REALLY' BEING MARGARET MITCHELL" "...Every mail brings in news of my activities [women impersonating Margaret Mitchell] in far distant parts of the country...If I can just catch one and fry her ears in deep fat, it will give me great pleasure and perhaps put a stop to this sort of thing. I wonder why people do this. God knows, it's not fun really being Margaret Mitchell so what possible fun could there be in pretending to be Margaret Mitchell? When I turned up in Nashville (where I have never been in my life) I was glad to learn from the papers that I 'had nice teeth and a modest way about me and it was all but impossible to get me to talk about writing G.W.T.W. [ Gone With the Wind ].' I should have taken drastic action the first time the first masquerader turned up in Milwaukee, offering to autograph in a book store there..." "...It's been a bad year and it could easily have ruined my life. Some how, it hasn't. You'll recall that a year ago I said laughingly that I was completely armoured against defeat. I had faced defeat so often that I had acquired good armor. But I said I didn't know about success. I didn't know how true my remark was at that time...I'm glad I dug in my toes and refused to be stampeded. Because I'm a lot happier today (even if I am a bit weary and have grey hairs I've no right to have) for having withstood the storm here at time than if I were just now coming home from an exile -- But who would ever have thought it would have lasted this long...The motion to dismiss the six billion dollar case [for plagiarism] against 'G.W.T.W.' [ Gone With the Wind ] will be heard in New York on the thirteenth. With any luck at all, it should be dismissed [it was]...but I won't believe it till I hear about it..."