Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1958 Aug. 20.

Record ID: 
288719
Accession number: 
MA 4292.5
Author: 
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Credit: 
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Signed EEC in red pencil.
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: 

Discussing his own confusion and mentioning that Marion once took him to see "The Thin Man." Referencing the Indian Pipe plant, noting that it sometimes fastens its suckers on its own roots, and wondering whether "this explain[s] why scientists call man sapiens." Sending, with Marion, congratulations on the "picking-hulling-shelling-pitting-bagging-&-freezing activities."