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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Two Long Island Railroad tickets to Northport retained by Joseph Cornell, 1942 Sept. 21.

BIB_ID
406052
Accession number
MA 8615.8-9
Display Date
1942 Sept. 21.
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
2 items; cm
Notes
Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
Provenance
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
Summary
Two tickets for trips to Northport, where Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry rented a house during the summer of 1942, numbered 450049 and 440016 (the latter with a small separate piece with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's signature on verso; Cornell has marked the verso of the ticket "autograph of Antoine de Saint-Saint-Exupéry" and dated it 9/21/42). The tickets are presumed to be mementoes of visits Cornell made to the house.