Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Brooklyn, to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1955 May 19.

BIB_ID
341291
Accession number
MA 8321.3
Creator
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Display Date
1955 May 19.
Credit line
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Marianne Moore to David Pleydell-Bouverie; see related collection-level record for more information.
Written from "260 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn 5, New York."
Provenance
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1974.
Summary
Thanking him for a picture; saying that if she visits California it will be, "not that I do not like that Berkeley campus," in order to see him. Discussing the disparity between New York and the West, wondering why one chooses to be "a street urchin when one might inhabit a paradise." Mentioning that she has been executing some watercolor drawings.