BIB_ID
446313
Accession number
MA 4733.61:1
Creator
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974, sender.
Display Date
Gambier, Ohio, 1944 August 14
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.9 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to: "Mr. Herbert Cahoon, / 401 West 118th Street, / New York 27, N.Y."
Year ("1945") added in black ink in Ransom's hand; note ("4") added over the "5" in "1945" in pencil in unknown hand.
Year of writing inferred from associated correspondence.
Letterhead reads: "The / Kenyon / Review / Gambier / Ohio".
Year ("1945") added in black ink in Ransom's hand; note ("4") added over the "5" in "1945" in pencil in unknown hand.
Year of writing inferred from associated correspondence.
Letterhead reads: "The / Kenyon / Review / Gambier / Ohio".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Apologizing to Herbert for holding on to Herbert's submitted plays for so long, noting "I feel mortified about your verse plays" and that he has"no impression of seeing them"; sharing that when Herbert sent the plays to The Kenyon Review, the magazine "had a young man as our secretary" who went on to suffer a "nervous breakdown" and who may have misplaced the plays; asking for forgiveness, writing, "Can you think of anything we could do to make recompense for apparently having lost them?"
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