Typed letter signed : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1983 Dec. 18.

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Typed letter signed : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1983 Dec. 18.

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Thanking him for the caviar and saying she doesn't want "to squander [it] on anyone but" Norah Barr; commenting on her plans for Christmas and remarking that people "don't understand about the voluptuous delights of deliberate solitude"; mentioning a visit from her daughter Kennedy; describing various luncheons at her house; sending him a copy of a poem called "Carol" by Thomas Merton; noting that she likes Mary Hyde and Charles Ryskamp; complaining about her typewriter and telling him she is "being propositioned to invest in an electronic IBM."

1 item (3 p.) ; 28 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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