BIB_ID
447484
Accession number
MA 4133.16
Creator
Bolton, Guy, 1882-1979, sender.
Display Date
place not identified, 1971 March 7
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.8 x 17.3 cm
Notes
Letterhead: Guy Bolton.
Addressed "Darling June".
"1971" written by June Tripp at the top of the page.
Autograph note by June Tripp at bottom of page: "Note: * 'Plum' is the nickname of P.G. Wodehouse. He is sometimes called "Plummy". / I figure that Guy is now in his mid-eighties!!!!! J."
Addressed "Darling June".
"1971" written by June Tripp at the top of the page.
Autograph note by June Tripp at bottom of page: "Note: * 'Plum' is the nickname of P.G. Wodehouse. He is sometimes called "Plummy". / I figure that Guy is now in his mid-eighties!!!!! J."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Summary
Being unable to respond fully to her last letter as he is reworking "Anything Goes", which he wrote with P.G. Wodehouse and Cole Porter, so that it can be performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and then Broadway; intending to travel on the Queen Elizabeth 2; informing that he has a play on in Paris at the Gaieté-Lyrique directed by Albert Marre with Joan Diener as the co-star; noting the "dream children to appear in our next incarnation on some distant planet" and volunteering himself "on your list of fathers"; hoping to take a trip to New York not "cluttered up with income tax, signing contracts and the like"; promising to call her; in a postscript informing that he is going to Ellaline Terriss' 100th birthday party on April 13 and asking if he should give her a "happy birthday" from her.
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