BIB_ID
432900
Accession number
MA 23475
Creator
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
Display Date
Wallingford, England, 1970 October 14.
Credit line
Purchased on the Caroline Morgan Macomber Fund, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 14 cm + envelope
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead: "Winterbrook House, / Wallingford, / Berks." On the lefthand side: "Wallingford 2248."
Envelope with postmarks (stamp cut away): "Miss Evelyn B. Byrne, / 277 East 207th St., / New York, / N.Y. 10467, / United States of America."
Byrne was a librarian at the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School in New York. With Otto Penzler, she co-edited Attacks of Taste (Gotham Book Mart, 1971), a book chronicling the reading habits of famous writers when they were young, based on responses Byrne received from Christie, Robert Creeley, Daphne du Maurier, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore, Jack Kerouac, Mary Renault, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams, among others.
Acquired with a first edition of Attacks of Taste signed by Byrne and Penzler (PML 198480).
Envelope with postmarks (stamp cut away): "Miss Evelyn B. Byrne, / 277 East 207th St., / New York, / N.Y. 10467, / United States of America."
Byrne was a librarian at the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School in New York. With Otto Penzler, she co-edited Attacks of Taste (Gotham Book Mart, 1971), a book chronicling the reading habits of famous writers when they were young, based on responses Byrne received from Christie, Robert Creeley, Daphne du Maurier, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore, Jack Kerouac, Mary Renault, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams, among others.
Acquired with a first edition of Attacks of Taste signed by Byrne and Penzler (PML 198480).
Provenance
Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd., January 2020.
Summary
Thanking Byrne for her card; writing "I always think that librarians must feel in a position of great power, firmly directing uncertain people's taste in literature"; sending her best wishes and adding "thank you so much for liking my books for such a long time."
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