BIB_ID
288776
Accession number
MA 4292.14
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
1950 [i.e. 1960] July 16.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; cm + envelope
Notes
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 blue pencil.
With stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / Chapelbrook / Ashfield Road / Williamsburg / Massachusetts."
Signed EEC in blue pencil.
With stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / Chapelbrook / Ashfield Road / Williamsburg / Massachusetts."
Summary
Sending "just a proverbial line" to say that he is enjoying the Degas book. Hoping that she isn't misbehaving "too strenuously," and noting that "nobody but a saint ever was patient, but anyone has a right to try to be."
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