BIB_ID
427473
Accession number
MA 4483.6
Creator
Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1972 February 28.
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 a Robert Graves letter (MA 4483.2); saying "This is not a very important Graves note, but I think the point at which he says that leading American newspapers 'have decided that I'm the greatest love poet of the century' is amusing and worth having. (At first, the word 'love' looks like 'live,' but the context luckily requires 'love.') If you don't find the note important enough to add to your archives, send it back and it will go to the rival archives of Kate Bowen Gill. If you choose to keep it, it will allay my guilt over all the petit-fours I gorge on, on Morgan occasions."
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