Typed letter signed : Princeton, to [José] Rodríguez Feo, 1944 Aug. 26.

Record ID: 
381672
Accession number: 
MA 5659.19
Author: 
Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes: 

On Princeton University letterhead.
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.

Summary: 

Giving him permission "to translate and print in [Orígenes] the Henry James essay In the Country of the Blue"; discussing possible ways to translate the title of the essay; remarking that he expects to finish his book on Henry Adams this fall; noting that after that he hopes to "finish up [his] small prospective study of James, and after that another on [Fyodor] Dostoevsky"; asking about Jorge Mañach, a man he knew in Cambridge.

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.