BIB_ID
288709
Accession number
MA 4292.3
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
1958 June 27.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / Chapelbrook / Ashfield Road / Williamsburg / Massachusetts."
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.
Signed EEC.
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.
Signed EEC.
Summary
Requesting that when they next meet, Curtiss enlighten Cummings "concerning Master Meredith; not a word of whose prose [Cummings has] ever read." Mentioning his "good friend T," and wondering how "doctor J" would describe the "inter-national brand of hyperdogmatic ultrapatriotism fashionable among fibbilmeyended inullexullz." Discussing cowbirds and quoting extensively from his "goodoldfashioned superbirdbook."
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