BIB_ID
446758
Accession number
MA 4733.72:10
Creator
Stephan, Ruth, 1910-1974, sender.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1952 June 26
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25 x 17.1 cm
Notes
Place of writing inferred from internal evidence.
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.
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
Thanking Herbert for sending the "photostats" of "the chapter and references on Christina" saying that they have "helped tremendously on certain points" of her book; sharing that she and John (John Stephan, 1906-1995) have left the "pensione" (small hotel or boarding house in Italy) and now are staying in a roomier apartment "in the Palazzo Dario"; noting that the new apartment is "wonderful for John's painting" with its high ceilings and Northern light; detailing a trip to Florence to see "Cavalli's Didone - a charming 17th century opera", extolling the costumes, talent, and setting; restating that John's painting is going well, writing, "he feels so much freer, out of the tangle of N.Y. art politics"; updating Herbert on her progress writing her book on Sweden's Queen Christina; congratulating Herbert on completing his "Joyce Bibliography".
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