Typed letter signed : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1983 Dec. 18.

Record ID: 
294260
Accession number: 
MA 4786.173
Author: 
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
Date: 
1983 Dec. 18.
Credit: 
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description: 
1 item (3 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 the caviar and saying she doesn't want "to squander [it] on anyone but" Norah Barr; commenting on her plans for Christmas and remarking that people "don't understand about the voluptuous delights of deliberate solitude"; mentioning a visit from her daughter Kennedy; describing various luncheons at her house; sending him a copy of a poem called "Carol" by Thomas Merton; noting that she likes Mary Hyde and Charles Ryskamp; complaining about her typewriter and telling him she is "being propositioned to invest in an electronic IBM."

Provenance: 
David Pleydell-Bouverie.