BIB_ID
446117
Accession number
MA 4733.49
Creator
Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1958 July?
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27 x 21 cm
Notes
Return address reads: "35 rue Victor Massé, / Paris IXe".
Note written in blue ink in Herbert Cahoon's hand at bottom: "Rec'd 14 July 1958 / HC"; "MU 9-0366" written in pencil in unknown hand at bottom.
Sheet folded into four sections.
On verso: address written in blue ink in Leyda's hand ("Herbert Cahoon / Morgan Library / 36th Street / (at Madison Ave)") at bottom right, note written in pencil in unknown hand ("Bernard Wolff c/o J. Bates / 157 East 56th St. / EL 5-1816 / 7 pm Friday / 50 St. Marks Place"), with additional note written in blue ink in unknown hand ("6 pm / PML on / corner") at top left.
Note written in blue ink in Herbert Cahoon's hand at bottom: "Rec'd 14 July 1958 / HC"; "MU 9-0366" written in pencil in unknown hand at bottom.
Sheet folded into four sections.
On verso: address written in blue ink in Leyda's hand ("Herbert Cahoon / Morgan Library / 36th Street / (at Madison Ave)") at bottom right, note written in pencil in unknown hand ("Bernard Wolff c/o J. Bates / 157 East 56th St. / EL 5-1816 / 7 pm Friday / 50 St. Marks Place"), with additional note written in blue ink in unknown hand ("6 pm / PML on / corner") at top left.
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Writing to introduce "Bernard Wolff, of the Cinémathèque Française" to Herbert; noting that Wolff is visiting America and that Herbert should show him a selection of "the Morgan treasures", specifically, "any convenient French manuscript".
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