BIB_ID
445355
Accession number
MA 4733.36:7
Creator
Howes, Barbara, sender.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1948 May 10
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.5 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Air letter addressed to: "Herbert Cahoon, Esq. / c/o THE TIGERS EYE / RFD #4 / Westport, Conn. / USA"
Return address reads: "B.H. Smith / 10 Charlbury Rd. / Oxford, England".
Postmarked and stamped.
Return address reads: "B.H. Smith / 10 Charlbury Rd. / Oxford, England".
Postmarked and stamped.
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Checking in with Herbert, noting "I expect you must be frightfully busy with the Tiger's Eye"; commenting on Oxford in the spring, calling it "far more pleasant than at other terms"; remarking on the kind people she has met, including Dylan Thomas, Enid Starkie, and "Day Lewis" [Cecil Day-Lewis]; informing Herbert that the she is going to release a book of poetry printed by The Banyan Press in the fall.
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