BIB_ID
312291
Accession number
MA 3851.10
Creator
Cushman, Howard.
Display Date
1968 Nov. 16.
Credit line
Gift of E. B. White, 1971.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 28 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of manuscript drafts and source material related to E. B. White's The trumpet of the swan. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Trumpeter's Rest."
Written from "Trumpeter's Rest."
Provenance
Gift of E. B. White in 1971.
Summary
Describing a telephone call with a Miss Hartman of the Free Library of Philadelphia, who dictated "There's a Small Hotel" to Cushman; enclosing a typed copy of the song as per White's request. Expressing surprise that Audubon had a pet trumpeter swan and offering White an Audubon print from a recent Book of the Month Club edition.
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