BIB_ID
446375
Accession number
MA 4733.67:3
Creator
Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1951 December 3
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.4 x 21.4 cm
Notes
Page 1 of carbon-copy draft of letter to Robin Skelton, missing signature. The location of the remaining fragment of the draft is unknown.
Return address reads: "Room 303 / New York Public Library / 476 Fifth Avenue, / New York 1[?], N.Y. / Dec. 3, 1951".
Return address reads: "Room 303 / New York Public Library / 476 Fifth Avenue, / New York 1[?], N.Y. / Dec. 3, 1951".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Informing Skelton that he "took the liberty" to submit a selection of Skelton's poems to Karl Shapiro, the "editor of Poetry", who then requested to see more of Skelton's work; remarking that Poetry is "one of our [the United States'] leading magazines in the field"; sharing life updates, including details of "a series of poetry readings" which he has been attending, and further sharing that he has resumed his habit of "going to the opera once a week."
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