BIB_ID
381587
Accession number
MA 5659.15
Creator
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
Display Date
undated [1946?].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.7 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.
Written before Bowles moved to Tangier in 1947; probably written in 1946 based on the other letters from Bowles in this collection.
Written before Bowles moved to Tangier in 1947; probably written in 1946 based on the other letters from Bowles in this collection.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Noting that he has been in Southampton for the past two months and has worked quite a bit; writing that he does not have time to translate a book for Ramon Sender and wonders if Rodríguez Feo would be interested in doing it instead; adding, "I know you are extremely difficult in your tastes"; telling him he is happy to hear he is coming to New York; giving his telephone number and address; asking him to "bring a little exotic perfume" with him: "You know I collect odors and there are none of any interest here"; telling him that the League of Composers asked for Rodríguez Feo's address and he sent it to them.
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