BIB_ID
436083
Accession number
MA 23619
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Display Date
Canada, 1942 May.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 volume (10 p., with two blanks) ; 28.2 cm
Notes
There is neither a place nor date of writing on the letter, but based on internal evidence, it was almost certainly written during Saint-Exupéry's trip to Canada in May 1942. He did not have a valid return visa to the United States and remained stranded in Canada for several weeks.
Hitchcock was Saint-Exupéry's publisher, along with Eugene Reynal, at Reynal & Hitchcock.
There is a pencil drawing on the verso of page 7.
Hitchcock was Saint-Exupéry's publisher, along with Eugene Reynal, at Reynal & Hitchcock.
There is a pencil drawing on the verso of page 7.
Provenance
Purchased from Librairie Benoît Forgeot, 2020.
Summary
Writing at length about his predicament; mentioning Elizabeth and Eugene Reynal, as well as the agent Maximilian Becker.
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