BIB_ID
303098
Accession number
MA 1909.1
Creator
Wallace, David.
Display Date
1955 Oct. 19.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postmark and addressed to "Miss Marianne Moore / 260 Cumberland Street / Brooklyn 5, New York."
Letter was composed by Mr. Wallace but transmitted over the signature of his associate, Mr. Robert B. Young.--Cf. Letters from and to the Ford Motor company.
Part of a collection of correspondence between Marianne Moore and the Ford Motor Company concerning the naming of the Edsel. Letters have been described individually in 16 records (MA 1909.1-16); see collection-level record for more information.
With a draft of Moore's response on p. 2.
Written on Ford Motor Company, Special Products Division stationery, and signed by Robert B. Young.
Letter was composed by Mr. Wallace but transmitted over the signature of his associate, Mr. Robert B. Young.--Cf. Letters from and to the Ford Motor company.
Part of a collection of correspondence between Marianne Moore and the Ford Motor Company concerning the naming of the Edsel. Letters have been described individually in 16 records (MA 1909.1-16); see collection-level record for more information.
With a draft of Moore's response on p. 2.
Written on Ford Motor Company, Special Products Division stationery, and signed by Robert B. Young.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace in 1958.
Summary
Reporting Ford's difficulty in naming "a rather important new series of cars" (later named the Edsel), and appealing to Moore fassistancence.
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