Record ID:
294219
Accession number:
MA 4786.159
Date:
1982 Nov. 17.
Credit:
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 28 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.
Summary:
Thanking him for "Mrs. [Mary] Hyde's book of the [Bernard] Shaw-[Alfred] Douglas letters"; noting that she is going to read [Oscar Wilde's Ballad of] Reading Gaol again; wondering why Wilde "behaved so openly as he did with the wretched he-whores [Alfred] Taylor supplied him"; discussing the weather and daily activities at the Ranch; telling him that Marietta Voorhees is in the hospital; reporting that Norah [Barr] is coming back from Switzerland.
Provenance:
David Pleydell-Bouverie.
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