Letter, card and photograph for Cornelia and Waller Barrett [manuscript], 1984 August 30.

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Letter, card and photograph for Cornelia and Waller Barrett [manuscript], 1984 August 30.

Caldwell sends greetings, describes Erskine's and her month of travel, asks about the Barrett's new home, and encloses a photograph of a painting titled "Santa Fe Blues" recently delivered to the Jamison Gallery in Santa Fe. With these is a birthday card to Cornelia and a postcard, 1985 April 24, from "Kate" to the Barretts describing a trip to Poe's house in Philadelphia and Whitman's in Camden.

3 items + 1 photo (col.); 9 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7920299

University of Virginia. Library

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