BIB_ID
294260
Accession number
MA 4786.173
Creator
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
Display Date
1983 Dec. 18.
Credit line
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 28 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.
Provenance
David Pleydell-Bouverie.
Summary
Thanking him for the caviar and saying she doesn't want "to squander [it] on anyone but" Norah Barr; commenting on her plans for Christmas and remarking that people "don't understand about the voluptuous delights of deliberate solitude"; mentioning a visit from her daughter Kennedy; describing various luncheons at her house; sending him a copy of a poem called "Carol" by Thomas Merton; noting that she likes Mary Hyde and Charles Ryskamp; complaining about her typewriter and telling him she is "being propositioned to invest in an electronic IBM."
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