Letters, 1951, Jan. 1-19, New York, to David Alonzo Jonah.

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Letters, 1951, Jan. 1-19, New York, to David Alonzo Jonah.

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[1] Jan. 1 -- Accepts invitation with understanding he speaks for one hour. Sets March 5 as date. [2] Jan. 6 -- Wishes to be in Providence very briefly. Is glad he needs no tuxedo, as he has none. [3] Jan. 14 -- Wishes it clear he will not give autographs during his visit. [4] Jan.19 -- Sends thanks.

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Jonah, David Alonzo, 1909-1981

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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...