BIB_ID
447177
Accession number
MA 4939.27
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
Totnes, England, 1963 June 2
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 24.5 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel stamped and postmarked on air Air Mail stationary: "Professor Edward Wagenknecht, / 233 Otis Street, / West Newton, 65, / Massachusetts, / U.S.A." from "E.V.V. Browne / Quarrenden, / Totnes, / Devon".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Being "very touched" by Wagenknecht's suggestion that he dedicate his next book, "Chicago", to her and stating that it "was a gift to honor not only me but Maurice Browne and the Chicago Little Theatre as well"; looking forward to reading the book; marveling at how much work he does; congratulating on his book, "The Movies in the Age of Innocence"; reporting travel and "a severe attack of shingles through the left side of my body" which threatened to derail her travel plans; describing the aid of friends to allow the plans to succeed; informing that her adopted daughter, Molly Underwood, is taking care of her; informing that she saw "James Joyce's Stephen D." [Hugh Leonard's adaptation of Joyce's autobiographical work] in London and had mixed feelings about it; informing that it is coming to New York and he may want to see it.
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