Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1940 Aug. 16.

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Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1940 Aug. 16.

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Discussing ongoing projects, including the Hesperides "Odyssey," "The Wind in the Willows," Shakespeare's poems, Carl Pforzheimer's catalogue, and his "chief concern at present ... the Hunter College inscription"; mentioning letters from Johnson at Oxford and Beatrice Warde, "both in good spirits"; enclosing a proof "for the Shakespeare"; asking if he heard that "an aunt of Frederic Warde's has turned up, in Wisconsin and claims the estate? That is, if there is any left."

1 item (2 p.) ; 20.2 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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