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

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

Letter from Vincent Starrett, Chicago, Illinois, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946 February 2 : typescript signed, with corrections in ink.

BIB_ID
450424
Accession number
MA 4824.7
Creator
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974, sender.
Display Date
Chicago, Illinois, 1946 February 2
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes
One of a collection of 30 letters and postcards (MA 4824).
Written from "222 W. Adams Street / CHICAGO 6".
Provenance
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Summary
Referring to several short stories by Arthur Machen (from his collections The Bowmen and Other Legends, The Shining Pyramid, Dreads and Drolls, and The Happy Children), one story by Arthur Conan Doyle (i.e. "The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe"), and a book by E.F. Benson (i.e. "The Countess of Lowndes Square"). Mentioning which of these books he possesses, and stating "when you come up to the apartment we can look over a shelf of other books in the field that may yield something."