BIB_ID
303100
Accession number
MA 1909.3
Creator
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Display Date
1955 Oct. 27.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace, 1958.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
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.
Written on stationery printed with Moore's address "260 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn 5, New York."
Written on stationery printed with Moore's address "260 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn 5, New York."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace in 1958.
Summary
Suggesting "Ford Silver Sword" as a potential name (for the car later named Edsel); also suggesting a Hurricane "bird series" (Hurricane Hirundo, Hurricane aquila, Hurricane accipiter).
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