Written from 4 Patchin Place. Signed EEC in red pencil.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / 1515 29th St N.W. / Washington 7 / D.C."
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.
Thanking her for kind words about his poems and discussing "sinister flocks of songless birds; easily recognizable as starlings" and parasites, "which reminds your lowercase servant" about the sighting of a "wholly miraculous STAR" while on an "eyetalian bumboat." Closing with a Blake quotation: "ONE LAW FOR THE LION AND OX IS OPPRESSION."