BIB_ID
446723
Accession number
MA 4733.72:9
Creator
Stephan, Ruth, 1910-1974, sender.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1952 March 14
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25 x 17.1 cm
Notes
Return address reads: "La Residenza / Via Emilia 22 / Roma - Italia".
Note written in pencil in unknown hand at top of page 1 detailing the title Stephan references.
Stephan researched and wrote two biographical novels on Sweden's Queen Christina: "The Flight" (1956) and "My Crown, My Love" (1960), both published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Note written in pencil in unknown hand at top of page 1 detailing the title Stephan references.
Stephan researched and wrote two biographical novels on Sweden's Queen Christina: "The Flight" (1956) and "My Crown, My Love" (1960), both published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Asking Cahoon for a favor to help with her "Christina research"; requesting to have someone copy a section out of an English translation of "History of the Popes" by Ludwig von Pastor; explaining that the original work is in German, and while there are no English translations available in Rome she trusts that there is a copy of the translated edition at the New York Public Library; describing the "gloriously pleasant" time that she is having in Rome now that spring "is crawling in"; noting the many Americans who are either visiting or living in Rome, including Claude Fredericks and Marguerite Young, as well as "other young American writers"; inquiring, "Was Rome so Americanly populated when you were here?"; asking for updates on Cahoon's writing projects.
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