BIB_ID
444342
Accession number
MA 4733.3:17
Creator
Fredericks, Claude, sender.
Display Date
Pawlet, Vermont, 1949 May 24
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.6 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Place of production from letterhead: "The Banyan Press / Printers & Publishers / Pawlet Vermont".
Postscript written in Claude Frederick's hand: "Milton says we never told you [illegible] / the lettered copies. We keep 3 / copies (1, 2, 3 or A, B, C) of everything / for ourselves -- 1 & 2 packed mint -- & / 3 or (C) for the open air. D went / to Cummington, E to Carl Von / Vechten -- & F to Arno!".
Postscript written in Claude Frederick's hand: "Milton says we never told you [illegible] / the lettered copies. We keep 3 / copies (1, 2, 3 or A, B, C) of everything / for ourselves -- 1 & 2 packed mint -- & / 3 or (C) for the open air. D went / to Cummington, E to Carl Von / Vechten -- & F to Arno!".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Accepting Herbert's offer to send an inscribed book; clarifying that when he previously requested that Herbert send two books to The Banyan Press, the two books were to be gifts for friends; notifying Herbert that he would send a book to Herbert to be inscribed: “we are sending you one of the lettered copies (since those were for us) to be inscribed.”; expressing delight that only 80 copies of Herbert's book remain available for sale; updating Herbert on the printing schedule for The Banyan Press.
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