BIB_ID
432776
Accession number
MA 9849.2
Creator
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1963 October 23.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 9.5 x 15.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on a notecard.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mme. Madeleine Chapsal / 14, Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie / Paris."
Madeleine Chapsal is a French novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet. In 1963, she published a volume of interviews entitled Quinze écrivains: entretiens. She also interviewed Porter that year, possibly for a newspaper or magazine profile.
Acquired with one other letter from Porter to Chapsal, cataloged as MA 9849.1.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mme. Madeleine Chapsal / 14, Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie / Paris."
Madeleine Chapsal is a French novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet. In 1963, she published a volume of interviews entitled Quinze écrivains: entretiens. She also interviewed Porter that year, possibly for a newspaper or magazine profile.
Acquired with one other letter from Porter to Chapsal, cataloged as MA 9849.1.
Provenance
Purchased from Michael R. Weintraub, Inc., March 5, 2018.
Summary
Saying how sorry she is to leave Paris without seeing Chapsal again, "but I trust you to know my situation, which is a question of work and fatigue," and mentioning that her address will be changing, so Chapsal should write care of Porter's publishers in the future; sending her a copy of the new edition of Ship of Fools, "finally corrected of the appalling typographical errors of the first 8 printings, and even in this you may notice on page 22 and 299 that I have caught two extremely silly misprints! But just the same, I want you to have a copy the way I really wrote the book, for I value your critical sense and your friendship, and do not want to lose sight of you"; enclosing a snapshot of herself taken the previous year in Rome (the book and the photograph are no longer with the letter); wishing her a "beautiful continued life of work and well-being!"
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