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.

Letter from Charles Olson, Myrtle Beach, to Mary Shore, 1956 September 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
414263
Accession number
MA 22158.1
Creator
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970, sender.
Display Date
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 1956 September 17.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 28 x 21.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed "Ol."
Date of writing from postmark.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Black Mountain College. Black Mountain, N.C."
Postmarked and stamped.
Envelope addressed to "Mary Shore / Gloucester, Massachusetts / (Commonwealth Ave? / on height above / Weston[?] Ave)."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Describing how it is his first vacation in 5 years and he really needed it; apologizing for not contacting her sooner; discussing his conversation with the Bishop of Raleigh; mentioning that he wrote "The Dogtown Common blues."