BIB_ID
444840
Accession number
MA 4733.11:49
Creator
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1962 November 12
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 19.6 x 15.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Place of writing inferred from letterhead and internal evidence; printed letterhead reads "Claridge's London".
Envelope addressed to "Mr. Herbert Cahoon / The Pierpont Morgan Library / 33 East Thirty-sixth Street / New York 16, N.Y. / U.S.A."
Postmarked and stamped.
Envelope addressed to "Mr. Herbert Cahoon / The Pierpont Morgan Library / 33 East Thirty-sixth Street / New York 16, N.Y. / U.S.A."
Postmarked and stamped.
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Discussing the "catalogue crisis" with Herbert; updating Herbert on her changed travel plans writing, "We now plan to sail on the Queen Mary on 23 November arriving on the 27th"; noting that she will not be back in time to attend Herbert's dinner because she is "getting the organization of Constables settled" [the publishing house Constables & Co.]; recounting that in Paris she had dinner with "The Marquis and Marquise Costa de Beauregard, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the Jean Furstenberg's"; continuing to share tales from her trip, writing "Then came a weekend with Ben's family at Brynbella” [a neoclassical villa in Wales]; describing visiting the Cathedral at Coventry; discussing her trip to Oxford, mentioning, "I will be made an honory [honorary] fellow of Pembroke, [Samuel] Johnson's College"; discussing the complexities of planning for Christmas travel, noting, "We are returning so late that we have some cold feet about Puerto Rico"; informing Herbert of her current holiday plans.
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