Record ID:
288741
Accession number:
MA 4292.11
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm + envelope
Notes:
The fifth sentence quoted is "I cannot count one," which Cummings has typed this in red.
Signed "bonne chance! EEC" in red pencil.
Written from 4 Patchin Place. Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / 156 E 71st Street / New York City."
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.
Summary:
Quoting 7 sentences from Walden, beginning with "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Following the quotation with a note that the "fifth sentence went to Harvard."
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