BIB_ID
288719
Accession number
MA 4292.5
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
1958 Aug. 20.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 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 in red pencil.
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 in red pencil.
Summary
Discussing his own confusion and mentioning that Marion once took him to see "The Thin Man." Referencing the Indian Pipe plant, noting that it sometimes fastens its suckers on its own roots, and wondering whether "this explain[s] why scientists call man sapiens." Sending, with Marion, congratulations on the "picking-hulling-shelling-pitting-bagging-&-freezing activities."
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