Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1983 Dec. 3.

Record ID: 
294255
Accession number: 
MA 4786.172
Author: 
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
Credit: 
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 28 cm
Notes: 

With a red heart sticker at the bottom of p. 4 next to an autograph note: "very much love, and will you be my Valentine?"
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: 

Commenting on a recent storm; mentioning a lunch that Julia and Paul Child will be attending; telling him about some "snooping journalists" who came to the Ranch; saying she is glad he could see his "21 letters collected in the Rosenbach"; noting that she is glad he likes [Helen] Frankenthaler; giving him a report of her trip to Los Angeles with Norah [Barr]; listing people honored at or attending an awards ceremony in L.A. (including Fernand Braudel, James Merrill, Thomas Keneally, and Seymour Hersh); describing the scene at her hotel, the New Otani; discussing her visit to Japan with Norah Barr.

Provenance: 
David Pleydell-Bouverie.