BIB_ID
288779
Accession number
MA 4292.15
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Display Date
1960 Aug. 26.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Addressed to "Kinderthankindest Mina," and signed EEC in red crayon.
At the foot of the page, Cummings gives a full citation for the Rilke quote.
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.
At the foot of the page, Cummings gives a full citation for the Rilke quote.
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.
Summary
Apologizing for "misbehav[ing] so clumsily," especially when he and Marion hoped to "hypnotize" her to Silver Lake, noting that his only "shallwesay consolation" is that he hasn't stepped on a rusty nail only to learn that the hospital has no "antitetanus serum." Mentioning that her "opus will be welcome," and quoting Rilke. Sending "morethanwarmest" greetings to Leger and love from Marion.
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