Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified friend, [1928 or later] Sept. 15.

BIB_ID
186389
Accession number
MA 7647.1
Creator
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Display Date
[1928 or later] Sept. 15.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 16.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "cher et spirituel ami."
Housed with a second letter to an unidentified friend (perhaps Léon Barthon), described in a separate record (MA 7647.2).
On stationery with "18, Half Moon St., Mayfair, W.I." printed at the top. Maugham is first recorded to have "kept a small flat at 18 Half Moon Street" in 1928. Cf. Ted Morgan, Maugham (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980), p. 312.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Criticizing the work of a female author whose name has been scratched out of the letter; saying he will be happy to see the recipient when he returns to Paris.