BIB_ID
427460
Accession number
MA 4483.2
Creator
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
Display Date
Mallorca, Spain, 1972 February 21.
Credit line
Gift of Brendan Gill, 1972.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.2 x 21.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a small collection of three autograph letters signed from Graves to Brendan Gill written in 1971 and 1972. (See also MA 4483.1 and MA 4483.3), one typed letter signed from Brendan Gill to Charles Ryskamp (MA 4483.4) and three typed letters signed from Brendan Gill to Herbert Cahoon all related to Gill's gifts of Graves manuscripts and letters to The Morgan Library (see MA 4483.5, MA 4483.6 and MA 4483.7).
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "Brendan Gill / The New Yorker / 25 W. 43 Street / N.Y. / 10036 / N.Y." and the return address printed on the envelope flap.
Written from "Canelluñ / Deya / Mallorca / Spain" on stationery printed with this address.
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "Brendan Gill / The New Yorker / 25 W. 43 Street / N.Y. / 10036 / N.Y." and the return address printed on the envelope flap.
Written from "Canelluñ / Deya / Mallorca / Spain" on stationery printed with this address.
Provenance
Gift of Brendan Gill, 1972.
Summary
Commenting on his age, his poetry, his olive harvest and new work; referring to a visit from Lassalle, saying that in his 77th year is bald spot is sprouting hair, and commenting on his poetry saying "American leading newspapers have decided that I'm the greatest love poet of the century; well, there's not much competition, is there? I suppose because Muses are fast disappearing : permissivity doesn't suit them, somehow. Getting the olive harvest in : have to do it all ourselves. The peasants have all become involved in TURISMO which pays better...I have had another Australian great grandchild, via the fourth child of my third child. Have three plays on the way to the stage including (I am promised) my Iliad play at the John Kennedy Memorial Theatre at Washington. And a Poems 1970-1972; for the Muse is still what a muse should be and owes her life to the charm I gave her mother in 1949 against further miscarriages. She had had five. My prescience."
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