Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Frederic Hastings Smyth to Herbert Cahoon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941 July 29 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
446652
Accession number
MA 4733.69:1
Creator
Smyth, Frederic Hastings, 1888-1960, sender.
Display Date
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941 July 29
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "transubstantio mundi per incarnationem / Oratory of St. Mary and St. Michael / Society of the Catholic Commonwealth / 12 Putnam Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Regretting missing Cahoon "the other afternoon" and confirming receipt of a note and a five dollar bill; notifying him that his "trunk will be called for tomorrow afternoon"; describing "the Alper's cottage" and what he did there, as well as the insect bites he got; appreciating Cahoon's mother's quahaug pie and his own "Pollo a la Cacciatore"; notifying Cahoon that he is "to go into retirement" during August and informing him as to the code needed to reach him by telephone; notifying him of a trip to Newport but expressing that he will likely not get a job there; informing Cahoon that he will be doing some writing and may prepare a lecture course for Cahoon's students; expressing gladness that Cahoon has a room at Columbia and telling him that Marshall Swan and Bill Austin "wished to be remembered by you".