BIB_ID
350023
Accession number
MA 8569.4
Creator
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
Display Date
1964 Oct. 23.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to William Targ at G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
Part of a collection of letters from Gwendolyn Brooks to William and Roslyn Targ; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from Gwendolyn Brooks to William and Roslyn Targ; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Regretfully declining his suggestion that she write a 2,500-line poem on "the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the Negro" because she is currently working on a book-length poem for Harper and sees "no end to my own writing project."
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