Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1958 June 27.

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Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1958 June 27.

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Requesting that when they next meet, Curtiss enlighten Cummings "concerning Master Meredith; not a word of whose prose [Cummings has] ever read." Mentioning his "good friend T," and wondering how "doctor J" would describe the "inter-national brand of hyperdogmatic ultrapatriotism fashionable among fibbilmeyended inullexullz." Discussing cowbirds and quoting extensively from his "goodoldfashioned superbirdbook."

1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 27.8 cm. + envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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