BIB_ID
446089
Accession number
MA 4733.46
Creator
Lehmann, John, 1907-1987, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1951 January 24
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.4 x 10.7 cm
Notes
Verso of letter contains typescript draft of Herbert's reply. Reply informs Lehmann that the John Lehmann Limited edition of "Confidence Man" had been missing from the N.Y.P.L "since May, 1950" and therefore was not included in his checklist; affirms that he would like to purchase both "Confidence Man" and "White Jacket" from John Lehmann Limited; makes note of a "mutual friend, Stuart Preston".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Thanking Herbert for sending him Herbert's "Check List of Herman Melville books in the New York Public Library"; noting that the John Lehmann Limited publishing house edition of Herman Melville's "Confidence Man" was not included in the list; offering to send the N.Y.P.L a copy of the work, as well as a copy of Melville's "White Jacket".
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