Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : [Abingdon], to John Skilton, [1955 Feb. 12].

BIB_ID
302043
Accession number
MA 4784.10
Creator
Masefield, John, 1878-1967.
Display Date
[1955 Feb. 12].
Credit line
Bequest of Mr. John Davis Skilton, Jr., 1992.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20 cm
Notes
Address panel with stamp and postmark.
Date and location of writing from postmark.
Part of a large collection of letters and papers related to John Masefiled. See collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Bequest of Mr. John Davis Skilton, Jr. in 1992.
Summary
Discussing the Shakespearean theatres in Stratford, Conn. and Oregon. Praising the United States, stating: "What a land is yours, what a destiny, what a culture," and musing that "this little land, with a tiny population, made plays that you should perform thus 3 1/2 centuries later: & that we, here, with our present population, have no such theatre yet."