BIB_ID
432844
Accession number
MA 23471.3
Creator
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992.
Display Date
Sherman, Connecticut, 1964 July 13.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 21.7 cm + envelope
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead: "Peter Blume. Sherman. Connecticut."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mr and Mrs James Thrall Soby / Southampton, New York."
Acquired with two other letters to James Thrall Soby and a signed card, cataloged separately as MA 23471.1, MA 23471.2, and MA 23471.4.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mr and Mrs James Thrall Soby / Southampton, New York."
Acquired with two other letters to James Thrall Soby and a signed card, cataloged separately as MA 23471.1, MA 23471.2, and MA 23471.4.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2502, lot 256, 21 March 2019.
Summary
Addressing the letter to "Jim and Melissa" and thanking them for the wire; describing a recent occasion (possibly an exhibition opening) and saying "I brought my claque along, some thirty strong, which is about the only thing, in a festive mood, which makes these occasions bearable for me. Otherwise I might have floundered about with some cold fish in the aquarium with the water draining away"; saying that that show looked better than it did in Manchester and that he hopes they will get to see it for themselves before it closes; sending love from himself and his wife Grace (called "Ebie" here).
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