BIB_ID
312704
Accession number
MA 3851.27
Creator
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
Display Date
1971 Apr. 9.
Credit line
Gift of E. B. White, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 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 on stationery headed "E. B. White / North Brooklin, Maine."
Written on stationery headed "E. B. White / North Brooklin, Maine."
Provenance
Gift of E. B. White in 1971.
Summary
Thanking him for the two-volume Perrault's Tales and for the catalogue of the Mary Flagler Cary music collection; reporting that he has been trying to write a libretto based on The Trumpet of the Swan; mentioning that Katherine has been reading the Perrault and inquiring about a letter in the Cary catalogue, which was possibly written by the mother Katherine's close childhood friend Katherine Gericke.
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