Typed letter signed by Robert B. Young : Dearborn, Mich., to Marianne Moore, 1955 Oct. 19.

Record ID: 
303098
Accession number: 
MA 1909.1
Author: 
Wallace, David.
Credit: 
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace, 1958.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.6 cm + envelope
Notes: 

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.
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.

Summary: 

Reporting Ford's difficulty in naming "a rather important new series of cars" (later named the Edsel), and appealing to Moore fassistancence.

Provenance: 
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace in 1958.