Letters to Mrs. Carl Rollins and Mrs. George P. Baker, 1959 March 2 and December 4.

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Letters to Mrs. Carl Rollins and Mrs. George P. Baker, 1959 March 2 and December 4.

Cummings thanks Mrs. Baker for a meeting with the Rollinses and "those literary items." He thanks Mrs. Rollins for a teaparty and a letter saying she enjoyed a reading, mentions sendng ["Enormous room"?] to Carl Rollins, and in a second letter reminisces over the occasion.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Baker, Christina Hopkinson, 1873-1959

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Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960

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