BIB_ID
312719
Accession number
MA 3851.28
Creator
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
Display Date
1971 July 14.
Credit line
Gift of E. B. White, 1971.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.7 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 "Mrs. E. B. White / North Brooklin, Maine 04661."
Written on stationery headed "Mrs. E. B. White / North Brooklin, Maine 04661."
Provenance
Gift of E. B. White in 1971.
Summary
Thanking him for a Xerox copy of a letter in the Mary Flagler Cary collection, which was written by the mother of White's childhood friend, Katherine Gericke; reporting that Gericke has suffered a stroke, but will love having the copy of her mother's letter; discussing her own childhood with the Gericke family, saying that "this whole experience was most widening and it gave me a love of good music that has lasted a lifetime." With an autograph postscript saying that Andy [E. B. White] adds his thanks and is looking forward to the Sonnenberg catalogue.
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