Typed letter signed : [Beverly Farms, Mass.], to Frank Kermode, [1991] Feb. 19.

Record ID: 
349006
Accession number: 
MA 8543
Author: 
Updike, John.
Credit: 
Man Booker Prize Collection. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2013.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to Prof. Frank Kermode in Cambridge.
Location and year of writing identified from postmark.

Summary: 

Thanking him for the dedication in his The Uses of Error and praising his ability to write good and informative criticism, noting "if there's a better reviewer, or a sounder bridge between the worlds of academia and journalism, in the Anglophone world, I don't know who it would be."

Provenance: 
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.