BIB_ID
443049
Accession number
MA 23792
Creator
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984, sender.
Display Date
Verbier, Switzerland, 1960 November 14.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 21.5 x 13.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Capote addresses Marie Rudisill (his aunt) as "Darling Tiny".
Envelope with postmark addressed to "Mrs. Edna Rudisill / Thrift Dye Works / P.O. Box 76 / Paw Creek, N.C. / U.S.A."
Envelope with postmark addressed to "Mrs. Edna Rudisill / Thrift Dye Works / P.O. Box 76 / Paw Creek, N.C. / U.S.A."
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2595, Lot 107, February 23, 2022.
Summary
Writing about family members, including "Seabon" [Jackson Faulk, her brother] and Joe [Ray?, her uncle]; mentioning his tax troubles; referring to the new book he is working on; expressing pleasure at the election of John F. Kennedy; mentioning a recent visit with the Kennedys in Palm Beach and describing them as "old and great friends"; describing the advantages of Verbier, including the skiing, which his partner Jack [Dunphy] loves, and the fact that his friends Charlie and Oona Chaplin and Noël Coward live nearby; noting that the film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's is nearly complete and adding "I'm told it is very good, and that Audrey Hepburn is excellent"; complaining about carrying his pets all over Europe, expressing concern about her young relatives, and promising to visit.
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