BIB_ID
447197
Accession number
MA 4939.36
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
Totnes, England, 1967 September 1
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.9 x 14.6 cm
Notes
Stamped and postmarked address panel on verso: Mr. Edward Wagenknecht, / 233 Otis Street, / West Newton, 02165 / Massachusetts / U.S.A. "Letter Card" printed on address panel. Illustration of the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth on the other side of the fold.
Letterhead reads: Cunard Line / R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth".
Letterhead reads: Cunard Line / R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth".
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Informing that she addressed this letter to him in April but was delayed from writing by "daily 'duties' & friends" and now summer is over; describing England in fall and giving a travel date; informing that she gave his book, "Merely Players", to the Darlington Hall Library, where "it will be greatly appreciated by the drama students in the Darlington College of Arts"; describing the weather in England that summer; asking if his neighborhood was involved in the rioting of the summer of 1967; informing that a friend from Los Angeles gave her a trip to Chichester to see John Clements' production of "Heartbreak House" and informing that she and Clements know each other; celebrating Clements' success; asking if he will visit New York in the autumn.
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