BIB_ID
451032
Accession number
MA 4905.4
Creator
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937, sender.
Display Date
West Redding, Connecticut, 1932 June 28
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 19.3 x 14.5 cm
Notes
One of a collection of 32 letters from Albert Bigelow Paine to Edward Wagenknecht (MA 4905).
Provenance
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Summary
Describing how Mark Twain made a recording of his seventieth birthday speech which was carelessly ruined by his secretary; mentioning a "reel or two of him at Stormfield" made by Fox Film; mentioning that Macmillian is "going with my book" [i.e. Life and Lillian Gish]; complimenting Wagenknecht's Jenny Lind.
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