BIB_ID
447026
Accession number
MA 4939.10
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1955 November 18
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.9 x 14 cm
Notes
Letterhead: Barbizon Plaza Hotel / 106 West 58th Street, Central Park South, New York. At foot: cable address "BARBPLAZA" telephone CIrcle 7-7000.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Explaining her not responding to his letter sooner with the need to settle her (unofficially) adopted daughter into "this very new life" in New York; thanking him for condolences on the death of Maurice Browne, which "came shortly after he had received the copy of the cover of his autobiography ["Too Late to Lament"] with the fine tribute by his publisher, Victor Gollancz"; giving travel plans; expressing excitement at the success of his book on Longfellow ["Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait"] and at a radio interview he did; expecting to like Arthur Meeker's "Chicago, With Love".
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