Typed letter signed : New York, to Mina Curtiss, 1961 Mar. 16.

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Typed letter signed : New York, to Mina Curtiss, 1961 Mar. 16.

Thanking her for kind words about his poems and discussing "sinister flocks of songless birds; easily recognizable as starlings" and parasites, "which reminds [her] lowercase servant" about the sighting of a "wholly miraculous STAR" while on an "eyetalian bumboat." Closing with a Blake quotation: "ONE LAW FOR THE LION AND OX IS OPPRESSION."

1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm. + envelope.

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