BIB_ID
381561
Accession number
MA 5659.12
Creator
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998.
Display Date
1944 Dec. 15.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.
Place of writing is from the first sentence of the letter.
Written to "Dear Pepé."
Place of writing is from the first sentence of the letter.
Written to "Dear Pepé."
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Observing that he is writing from Miami, "which ... is about as far as [he] will get in that proposed trip to Havana"; remarking that he was so busy that he neglected "the formalities involved in getting a draft permit and a passport renewal"; wishing they could have met to work through passages of [T.S. Eliot's] Four Quartets; adding that he is starting work on a long poem, and in preparation he is re-reading the Bible, [Dante's] Divine Comedy; Lucretius, [Shakespeare's] The Tempest, and [Herman Melville's] Moby Dick; noting that he forgot to bring Rodríguez Feo's letter with him and thus will have to answer his questions about translating an E.E. Cummings poem when he returns to Vassar; telling him, "You were lucky to get a poem from [Marianne] Moore -- she's so spare in her production"; giving his address in Miami.
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