BIB_ID
288724
Accession number
MA 4292.7
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
1958 Sept. 5.
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 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 her work, noting "(quoting Leonardo) ... the artist who doesn't doubt himself makes only small progress" and "(as Dr Jung assures us) women are men-outside-in." Expressing delight that she enjoyed his Russian diary, and noting that he and M[arion] M[orehouse] intend to visit Martha's Vineyard and wish to accept her invitation to visit Chapelbrook.
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