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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Guy Bolton, place not identified, to June Tripp, 1979 June 28: typescript signed.

BIB_ID
447500
Accession number
MA 4133.19
Creator
Bolton, Guy, 1882-1979, sender.
Display Date
place not identified, 1979 June 28
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.5 x 15.9 cm
Notes
Year derived from a reference to the death "some weeks ago" of his wife, Virginia de Lanty.
Addressed "June darling".
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr., 1980.
Summary
Reporting that he is still ill and is going to England to seek treatment; informing that his wife, Virginia de Lanty, died "some weeks ago"; discussing his difficulty at watching her die as well as her care for him and her being younger than he, and noting that she and Tripp "were the only women I have truly loved"; resigning himself to living in the past; informing on plays he has running, "pushing my number to over a hundred", and a television show; asking forgiveness for the "dismal" nature of this letter but giving his love "at ninety-six" and hoping to meet "in the next world".