BIB_ID
447196
Accession number
MA 4939.35
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1967 March 28
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 8.9 x 7 cm
Notes
3 leaves from a small notepad, still bound by the original adhesive.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Informing that she is currently waiting in the Social Security Office to file a summer change of address for her "$35 monthly check for 'Special Benefit' because I am over 72 and have never been entitled to Social Security!!"; informing that the notepad on which the letter was written is from Totnes, Devon, and is for her daily shopping list; agreeing that she should wait for plays Wagenknecht was supposed to send until she gets back to New York in October; commenting that all who knew Geraldine Farrar -- and particularly personal friends like Wagenknecht -- were saddened by her death; ceasing to write because her number is about to be called; looking forward to reading the plays and hoping she can be of help; giving her summer address.
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