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".
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