BIB_ID
433019
Accession number
MA 9847.9
Creator
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Display Date
Munich, Germany, 1907? February 28.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2018.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Atherton lists the day and month of writing. Possible year of writing based on internal evidence.
On stationery with the letterhead: "Kaulbachstrasse 75 / Munich."
Signed with initials.
James MacArthur, former joint editor of the Bookman (1894-1900), joined Harper and Brothers as a reader and literary advisor in 1901.
On stationery with the letterhead: "Kaulbachstrasse 75 / Munich."
Signed with initials.
James MacArthur, former joint editor of the Bookman (1894-1900), joined Harper and Brothers as a reader and literary advisor in 1901.
Provenance
Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, October 2018.
Summary
Saying that she has settled on Ancestors as the title of her new book; discussing her travel plans for the year; writing about publishing and theatrical matters; enclosing a clipping (no longer with the letter) from the Berliner Tag by "the first German critic of English literature"; commenting on the reception of the opera Salome in United States and Germany.
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