Record ID:
294194
Accession number:
MA 4786.147
Credit:
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes:
Part of a collection of ca. 225 typed and autograph letters, postcards, and notes from M.F.K. Fisher to David Pleydell-Bouverie. Items in this collection are described in individual records; see MA 4786 for more information.
With an autograph note in the right margin mentioning that she "heard M[aya] Angelou on radio. She is now the Black Emily Dickinson, rather than the new Proust of the Western World."
Summary:
Thanking him for his "masterpiece of drivel"; talking about a film [by Abel Gance] called "Napoléon" that she saw in 1929; saying that she would like to see the film of "Nicholas Nickleby"; discussing the weather and changes at the Ranch; mentioning visitors and phone calls.
Provenance:
David Pleydell-Bouverie.
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