BIB_ID
447202
Accession number
MA 4939.41
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1971 February 13
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.2 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Page 1 written on letterhead: "Laurelton-Wellington Hotel / Seventh Avenue at Fifty-fifth Street New York N.Y. 10019 / Telephone: Circle 7-3900". "Ellen Van Volkenburg Browne" printed at the bottom.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Reporting that she was so busy recently that "for the first time in years I sent Christmas cards only to sick friends!"; informing that she will no longer be summering in England and that she will soon be leaving New York for California with her friend, Jo Jordan; notifying that they will lease a house in Carmel belonging to "the one-time wife of Dartington Hall's former Headmaster" until December, when Jordan's home, which is leased to members of the British legation, will be available; expressing a need to go through all belongings, even from as far back as 1939; giving her Carmel address; asking if he will be in New York before she leaves.
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