BIB_ID
422954
Accession number
MA 3500.250
Creator
Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, between 1951 and 1954.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 9.1 x 13.1 cm
Notes
Portion of letter; lacks first and last part of letter.
Recipient and place of writing inferred from related correspondence.
Possible date of writing based on Yourcenar's book, The memoirs of Hadrian (first published in France in 1951), published by Stein and Day as "Hadrian's memoirs" in 1951 and Farrar, Straus and Young in 1954.
Recipient and place of writing inferred from related correspondence.
Possible date of writing based on Yourcenar's book, The memoirs of Hadrian (first published in France in 1951), published by Stein and Day as "Hadrian's memoirs" in 1951 and Farrar, Straus and Young in 1954.
Summary
Stating that Marguerite Yourcenar [see MA 3500.246] is having a great deal of success with her book [The Memoirs of] Hadrian in the U.S. She's happy about it, because Yourcenar is a friend of hers and hasn't been treated well by the French, which doesn't surprise her.
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