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Pressed leaves and small piece of metal in a blue envelope, retained by Joseph Cornell, ca. 1942-1943.

BIB_ID
406055
Accession number
MA 8615.12
Display Date
ca. 1942-1943.
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
1 item with enclosures ; 10.3 x 16 cm (envelope)
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
Significance of the leaves and metal piece is unknown; they are part of Cornell's dossier on the Saint-Exupérys so may relate to time they spent together.