BIB_ID
381758
Accession number
MA 5659.26
Creator
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Display Date
1965 Dec. 14.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (2 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.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Telling him that she remembers him "very well"; saying that she doesn't think she will make it to Cuba "in spite of [his] kind invitation"; commenting on the political situation between the United States and Cuba: "I was always in sympathy with all people who were trying to be free, and I still am. I am only just a little tired of this country being forever damned as an imperialist tyranny while being expected to foot the bills for other countries' revolutions"; commenting on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway; thanking him for sending some of her letters; asking if he has "a story of [hers] in [his] collection of Cuentos Norteamericanos"; offering to send him a copy of her collection of short stories; asking if he has read her novel, Ship of Fools.
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