Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Ellen Van Volkenburg, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1959 December 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447127
Accession number
MA 4939.18
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1959 December 1
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 23.5 x 15.3 cm
Notes
Letterhead with insignia: "Hotel Laurelton / A Knott Hotel / 147 West 55th Street / New York 19, N.Y." with "Circle 7-3900" to the left.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Informing that she is no longer staying at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel, as they raised their daily rates to equal $315 monthly; describing the Hotel Laurelton positively; expressing pleasure that Wagenknecht will be in New York for the holidays and encouraging him to stay at the Wellington Hotel; appreciating his offer of help with Nellie Cornish's autobiography, "Miss Aunt Nellie", but informing that the editing "is in the hands of Mr. Leon Wilson of McGraw-Hill"; updating on the editing process and expressing an interest in discussing "the general plan", and other things more broadly, with Wagenknecht; in a postscript informing on availabilities and prices at the Wellington Hotel.