BIB_ID
447482
Accession number
MA 4133.15
Creator
Bolton, Guy, 1882-1979, sender.
Display Date
Remsenburg (N.Y.), 1968 January 17
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.3 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Letterhead: Guy Bolton / Remsenburg / Long Island.
"1968" written by June Tripp below typed date.
Addressed "My darling June".
Autograph note by June Tripp at top of page: "Note: The "Vivian" referred to is Vivian Ellis, well-known English song-writer who composed several of my "successes"."
"1968" handwritten by June Tripp below the typed date.
Autograph note by June Tripp at bottom of page: "Note: Re initials "P.G.W." stand for P.G. Wodehouse, famous writer - & a great humorist. His nickname is "Plummy" & Bolton often refers to him as such, in his letters to me."
"1968" written by June Tripp below typed date.
Addressed "My darling June".
Autograph note by June Tripp at top of page: "Note: The "Vivian" referred to is Vivian Ellis, well-known English song-writer who composed several of my "successes"."
"1968" handwritten by June Tripp below the typed date.
Autograph note by June Tripp at bottom of page: "Note: Re initials "P.G.W." stand for P.G. Wodehouse, famous writer - & a great humorist. His nickname is "Plummy" & Bolton often refers to him as such, in his letters to me."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Summary
Expressing gladness at her "progress back to health"; informing that he has rarely visited New York recently, except quick trips to attend a rehearsal or an audition, but that he will stay for a couple of nights soon; noting the "ridiculous" title for the show he is working on, "Who's Who, Baby?", director and actor changes, and the fact that it opens on February 2nd; hoping he can visit a day or two before that; reporting travel plans to England to discuss the casting of "Odds on Jeeves" with Tom Arnold; noting English and New York weather; asking to hear about "your meeting with Vivian [Ellis] in Poland Street" and remarking on a show they wrote together; going to a meeting with Robert Wright, George Forrest, and P.G. Wodehouse; in a postscript looking forward to meeting "that lucky man".
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