BIB_ID
446768
Accession number
MA 4733.72:11
Creator
Stephan, Ruth, 1910-1974, sender.
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.9 x 20.9 cm
Notes
Postcard addressed to "Miss Marta Harrson / Morgan Library / 36th Street at Madison Ave / New York, N.Y. / USA".
Date appears as "May 11th / 1957", but stamp is dated "1956".
Written on picture postcard of "Fiesole - Interno S. Francesco - Chiostro Etrusca".
Postmarked and stamped.
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.
Date appears as "May 11th / 1957", but stamp is dated "1956".
Written on picture postcard of "Fiesole - Interno S. Francesco - Chiostro Etrusca".
Postmarked and stamped.
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 Marta for introducing Stephan's book, "The Flight" to art historian Bernard Berenson; remarking that having Berenson know of her book is "one of the nicest things that has happened to the book!"
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