Record ID:
303111
Accession number:
MA 1909.9
Credit:
Gift of Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie, Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace, 1958.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes:
Written on stationery printed with Moore's address "260 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn 5, New York."
Part of a collection of correspondence between Marianne Moore and the Ford Motor Company concerning the naming of the Edsel. Letters have been described individually in 16 records (MA 1909.1-16); see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Suggesting names, including Mongoose Civique, Anticipator, Turbotorc, Magigravure and Pastelogram (for the car later named Edsel).
Provenance:
Gift of Miss Marianne Moore and Mr. David Wallace in 1958.
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