Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1959 Oct. 14.

Record ID: 
288737
Accession number: 
MA 4292.10
Author: 
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Credit: 
Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss, 1973.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.7 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Signed EEC in red pen.
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: 

Thanking her for a letter and noting that "our nonhero ... had encountered Rilke's "the enemy" & felt vanquished on all sides backs & even fronts." Noting that she is right in doubting his "capacity to appreciate even young felines," but mentioning that he "adore[s] chipmunks & worship[s] birds-who-sing." Sending love from Marion.