BIB_ID
381660
Accession number
MA 5659.17
Creator
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
Display Date
[1946?] Sept. 2.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.3 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 to "Dear Pepe."
Written before Bowles moved to Tangier in 1947; probably written in 1946 based on the other letters from Bowles in this collection.
Written to "Dear Pepe."
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Discussing possible plays to see when Rodríguez Feo is in New York; noting that the [Jean-Paul] Sartre play [probably No Exit] will not open before November 1st; reporting that he is going "into town tomorrow morning with Oliver Smith"; adding, "I am invited to Connecticut to Katharine Hepburn's for next weekend, and I don't know whether I shall go or stay"; telling him not to spend too much on the essential oils he requested; asking if he will bring the autumn issue of Orígenes with him; writing, "the [Alejo] Carpentier book would delight my soul. I can't wait to see it. He is a perito on Afro-Cuban music, isn't he?"; concluding, "I know you hate my version of the tropics because you like civilization, but I hate every version of civilization, be it tropical or northern."
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