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

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

Annotated box from a bottle of Waterman's ink, retained by Joseph Cornell, ca. 1942-1943.

BIB_ID
406053
Accession number
MA 8615.10
Display Date
ca. 1942-1943.
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
1 item; 19 x 11.1 cm (flat)
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
Box from a bottle of Waterman's Ideal Ink, Permanent Blue Black, with ink stains and numerous annotations, some of which may be in the hand of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry: "2/5/43," "35 Beekman Place" (the Saint-Exupérys' address beginning January 1943), "Maria Consuelo Suncin Sandoval," "et de Saint-Exupéry aujourd'hui."