Maxwell Perkins served as the head editor of Scribner for over 37 years. By his death in 1947 he had worked with some of the most vital and enduring writers in American literature—including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe. Regarded as one of the most creative and visionary editors of all time, Perkins’s letters to his authors are evidence of his deep care and talent. In this letter from 1940, Perkins reaches out to Hemingway following the completion of For Whom the Bell Tolls to share some encouragement.

via Maxwell Perkins’s Letter to Ernest Hemingway.