BIB_ID
427470
Accession number
MA 4483.5
Creator
Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1971 April 21.
Credit line
Gift of Brendan Gill, 1972.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.1 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a small collection of three autograph letters signed from Graves to Brendan Gill written in 1971 and 1972. (See MA 4483.1 MA 4483.2 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).
Written on the letterhead of The New Yorker / No. 25 West 43 Street / New York, NY 10036."
Written on the letterhead of The New Yorker / No. 25 West 43 Street / New York, NY 10036."
Provenance
Gift of Brendan Gill, 1972.
Summary
Concerning the gift of a Robert Graves letter (MA 4483.1); expressing his delight that The Morgan would like the Graves letter; saying "I don't know how much 'translating' of letters you do, in respect to the information they contain, but perhaps it will be useful for you to know, that the A.R. whom Graves refers to is Alistair Reid, a Scottish poet, once a protégé of Graves. In a celebrated sexual dust-up (if that is the word, which I doubt) some years ago, Reid spirited away Graves's White Goddess, a very good-looking Irish-Greek girl, and Graves was all for having Reid assassinated for this deed, but the Majorcan brigands he hired proved incompetent at more than brigandage, so Alistair survived. The White Goddess subsequently took up with and married Mike Nichols, by whom she had a child, and then divorced him and returned to Europe, where, as far as I know, she has slipped out of history."
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