Typed letter signed : Glen Ellen, California, to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1984 Oct. 26.

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Typed letter signed : Glen Ellen, California, to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1984 Oct. 26.

Giving him a list of "Small News Items of Local Interest"; mentioning the new chefs at the Sonoma Mission Inn; describing a luncheon given by the Sonoma League for Historic Preservation that she attended with Alice Waters; asking if he can find the rest of a riddle that Man Ray wrote around a chess set she used to have; telling him that the riddle is probably by Lewis Carroll.

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