BIB_ID
294194
Accession number
MA 4786.147
Creator
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
Display Date
1981 Oct. 19.
Credit line
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of ca. 225 typed and autograph letters, postcards, and notes from M.F.K. Fisher to David Pleydell-Bouverie. Items in this collection are described in individual records; see MA 4786 for more information.
With an autograph note in the right margin mentioning that she "heard M[aya] Angelou on radio. She is now the Black Emily Dickinson, rather than the new Proust of the Western World."
With an autograph note in the right margin mentioning that she "heard M[aya] Angelou on radio. She is now the Black Emily Dickinson, rather than the new Proust of the Western World."
Provenance
David Pleydell-Bouverie.
Summary
Thanking him for his "masterpiece of drivel"; talking about a film [by Abel Gance] called "Napoléon" that she saw in 1929; saying that she would like to see the film of "Nicholas Nickleby"; discussing the weather and changes at the Ranch; mentioning visitors and phone calls.
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