BIB_ID
385150
Accession number
MA 8691.5
Creator
Goyen, William, sender.
Display Date
Los Angeles, California, 1982 May 3.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.6 x 14 cm + envelope
Notes
On letterhead stationery.
Envelope is addressed to "John Martin / Black Sparrow Press / P.O. Box 3993 / Santa Barbara, Ca. / 93105."
Envelope postmarked and stamped.
Part of a collection of William Goyen's typescript of Christy: A Play in Two Acts (MA 8691) and five letters (four with envelopes) from William Goyen to John Martin (MA 8691.1, 3-5) and to Peggy Wirta (MA 8691.2), both of Black Sparrow Press. Items are described in six separate records (MA 8691 and MA 8691.1-5).
Envelope is addressed to "John Martin / Black Sparrow Press / P.O. Box 3993 / Santa Barbara, Ca. / 93105."
Envelope postmarked and stamped.
Part of a collection of William Goyen's typescript of Christy: A Play in Two Acts (MA 8691) and five letters (four with envelopes) from William Goyen to John Martin (MA 8691.1, 3-5) and to Peggy Wirta (MA 8691.2), both of Black Sparrow Press. Items are described in six separate records (MA 8691 and MA 8691.1-5).
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Saying that he would rather have the reprint edition of In a Farther Country with Black Sparrow Press and will wait until this is possible; remarking that he understands that Martin cannot print his plays, but he is disappointed; telling him to "just keep" the plays because "who knows how things will change"; thanking him for his new catalogue; adding that he is "presently (for the last year) orphaned of publisher and editor"; reporting that "despite [his] early disdain for" Los Angeles, "it now suits [him] fine"; thanking Martin for his friendship and interest in his work.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30.5 cm)
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