BIB_ID
288770
Accession number
MA 4292.13
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
[1960 May 21].
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 / Ashfield Road / Williamsburg / Massachusetts / Chapelbrook."
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
Thanking her for a "truly sympathetic & really cheering letter," noting that it is rare he receives an "epistle" to which those adjectives can be honestly applied. Noting that he sometimes feels "a twinge of nearguilt" at the thought of her suffering on account of Marion and himself, but that he soon recalls that "one glorious country moment may knock a whole season of urban soidisant sunshine into the proverbial cocked hat." Describing the arrival of her gift of lilacs, and thanking her, stating: "words, my dear Mina, fail to begin to express my consort's & my farmorethangratitude."
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