BIB_ID
348531
Accession number
MA 8535.9
Creator
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson, 1908-1986.
Display Date
[1983] Sept. 4.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to Mrs. Carlton Wells at the Chelsea Community Hospital.
Location of writing inferred from return address.
Part of a collection of autograph and typed letters signed to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wells.
Typed on a card illustrated with a rooster.
Location of writing inferred from return address.
Part of a collection of autograph and typed letters signed to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wells.
Typed on a card illustrated with a rooster.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Saying she telephoned to offer some tomatoes from their garden and regretting to hear that she is in the hospital. Remarking on the recent airing of the made-for-television adaptation of her work The Dollmaker, noting that "I am still riding to a bit of notoriety on Jane Fonda's skirt tails" and that many people ask if she has met her. Noting that "the press is sometimes good, but too often wrong" and stating that all of her characters are fictional.
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