BIB_ID
442171
Accession number
MA 23787
Creator
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1946 October 13.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Cummings has drawn a small elephant in pencil at the top of the page.
Signed "EEC."
Written from 4 Patchin Place.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Prof. Theodore Spencer / N-21 Eliot House / Cambridge, 38 / Mass."
Signed "EEC."
Written from 4 Patchin Place.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Prof. Theodore Spencer / N-21 Eliot House / Cambridge, 38 / Mass."
Provenance
Purchased from University Archives, Lot #306, 10 January 2022.
Summary
Thanking Spencer for "the Two Towers" and adding that few "denizens of a nonworld nineteen-eighteenths buried in radiopuke and moviemerde can possibly or otherwise enjoy receiving your churches as much as myself"; referring to "Allen T" and fairy tales; thanking Spencer for "the delightful dinner con Richards" (possibly I. A. Richards).
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