Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1958 June 27.

Record ID: 
288709
Accession number: 
MA 4292.3
Author: 
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Credit: 
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Signed EEC.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs Henry T Curtiss / Chapelbrook / Ashfield Road / Williamsburg / Massachusetts."
Part of a collection of 21 letters from E. E. Cummings to Mina Curtiss (MA 4292.1-21); 7 letters from Marion Morehouse to Mina Curtiss (MA 4293.1-7); 51 drawings and sketches (MA 4291.1-51); and 4 photographs (MA 4291.52-55). Items are cataloged individually in 83 records.

Summary: 

Requesting that when they next meet, Curtiss enlighten Cummings "concerning Master Meredith; not a word of whose prose [Cummings has] ever read." Mentioning his "good friend T," and wondering how "doctor J" would describe the "inter-national brand of hyperdogmatic ultrapatriotism fashionable among fibbilmeyended inullexullz." Discussing cowbirds and quoting extensively from his "goodoldfashioned superbirdbook."