BIB_ID
373152
Accession number
MA 5142.77
Creator
Price, Robert Glenn, 1918-
Display Date
1943 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope and letter addressed to "Pvt. Albert Sperisen / Training Detachment / Army Air Base / Colorado Springs, Colo."
Envelope with postmark and stamp.
Price gives the following return address: "Sgt. Bob Price, 19083858 / 47th Fighter Sqd., AC / APO 959 / c/o Postmaster / San Francisco, Calif."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Envelope with postmark and stamp.
Price gives the following return address: "Sgt. Bob Price, 19083858 / 47th Fighter Sqd., AC / APO 959 / c/o Postmaster / San Francisco, Calif."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Telling him he received a letter "from Brewster Ghiselin, Horace's son, telling [him] he would like to print a poem"; describing an "incident from [their] past" when he watched Sperisen walking to the ballet; informing him that he is "looking for an editor" for a work of "7000 to 10000 words: A MONTH OF SYMBOLOGY, written in the knowledge that all months have thirty-two days. They are half minute scetches [sic] written during the month of February"; sending two samples from the work, one about islands and one called "The Happy Land of Jean Harlow"; writing, "I too have enjoyed adventures in illiteracy. My Sgt. said, 'We are all clogs in a great machine'"; adding that he will be 25 on Saturday.
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