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, 1964 October 23-25 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447186
Accession number
MA 4939.29
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1964 October 23-25
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.5 x 15.3 cm
Notes
Hotel Wellington letterhead with "Laurelton-" autographed above.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Reporting that she has started reading his book [likely "Seven Daughters of the Theater"] and that she is in awe of "your capacity of identifying yourself (with always fresh zest) with your people"; informing that "Miss Aunt Nellie" is being published by the University of Washington Press; further informing that she and the other editor, Edward Nordhoff Beck, hope Wagenknecht will review it; commenting on a personal connection between Wagenknecht and Beck and informing that Wagenknecht's book, "Geraldine Farrar: An Authorized Record of Her Career", is "one of his most cherished books" but that he lost his copy.