Typed postal card signed : [Rio de Janeiro], to Bill [William Cole], 1953 Sept. 5.

Record ID: 
349763
Accession number: 
MA 8563.1
Author: 
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.9 x 13.9 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Envelope with stamps and postmark and addressed to William Cole at Knopf in New York. Location of writing inferred from return address.
Postal card illustrated with a photograph of "Imperador D. Pedro II Petropolis."
Part of a collection of letters of Elizabeth Bishop to William Cole; see collection-level record for more information.

Summary: 

Thanking him for a book; mentioning that "this rather Santa Claus man" illustrating the postal card is the last emperor of Brazil; hoping her next trip to New York is less rushed than the last.

Provenance: 
Carter Burden.