Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1960 Aug. 26.

Record ID: 
288779
Accession number: 
MA 4292.15
Author: 
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Credit: 
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.7 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Addressed to "Kinderthankindest Mina," and signed EEC in red crayon.
At the foot of the page, Cummings gives a full citation for the Rilke quote.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / Chapelbrook / Ashfield Road / Williamsburg / Massachusetts."
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.

Summary: 

Apologizing for "misbehav[ing] so clumsily," especially when he and Marion hoped to "hypnotize" her to Silver Lake, noting that his only "shallwesay consolation" is that he hasn't stepped on a rusty nail only to learn that the hospital has no "antitetanus serum." Mentioning that her "opus will be welcome," and quoting Rilke. Sending "morethanwarmest" greetings to Leger and love from Marion.