BIB_ID
447427
Accession number
MA 4133.3
Creator
Bolton, Guy, 1882-1979, sender.
Display Date
Remsenburg (N.Y.), 1964? June 8
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.3 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead reading: "Guy Bolton / Remsenburg / Long Island" at the top of the sheet with "Eastport 206" to the left.
Addressed "June darling".
Year derived from a reference to having received "The Glass Ladder", which he had asked for in the previous letter, on May 20th (MA 4133.2).
Addressed "June darling".
Year derived from a reference to having received "The Glass Ladder", which he had asked for in the previous letter, on May 20th (MA 4133.2).
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Summary
Reporting that "The Glass Ladder" arrived and that he is "fascinated by it"; discussing their individual bouts of peritonitis; expressing pleasure at her company "the other day" and complimenting her; informing that "my proofs have just arrived, with a deadline attached, so I shall be holed up down here for a short spell"; encouraging her to write another book and remarking that her "corner of Mexico should make a fine background"; in a postscript apologizing for not asking her roommate to have a drink.
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