BIB_ID
439623
Accession number
MA 23760.2
Creator
Lorde, Audre.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1970 December 5.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2021.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.6 cm
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead: "Audre Lorde / 626 Riverside Drive / New York, N.Y. 10031 / AU 6-6887."
Acquired with MA 23760.1, another letter from Lorde to Williams.
Acquired with MA 23760.1, another letter from Lorde to Williams.
Provenance
Purchased from Downtown Brown Books, September 2021.
Summary
Thanking her for the prospectus for Roots and referring to Mance [Williams]; recalling past readings, including one given in Bemus Point, New York; saying that she is teaching and has a number of readings coming up; mentioning Richard Lewis's children's program at the YMHA (Young Men's Hebrew Association); saying that she was disappointed not to receive an application for the New York State Council on the Arts grant and asking Williams if she knows anything about it; writing that she hears from England that her book Cables to Rage may be reprinted; adding that Wesleyan University Press has had her new manuscript for over two months now, but she has heard nothing from them; concluding "I hope you and your babies are flourishing. Let me hear from you."
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