Typed letter signed : place not specified, to Andy [E. B. White], 1969 Oct. 10.

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Typed letter signed : place not specified, to Andy [E. B. White], 1969 Oct. 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754851076

Responding to White's inquiry on behalf of a "friend" (i.e., Louie the Trumpeter Swan) about flights from Philadelphia to Billings, Montana, and enclosing a slip of paper with details about the flights. Recommending a pleasant restaurant and a saloon in Billings and noting that if White's "friend" decides to stay in Billings for a week "with an eye to economy," there is a big beet sugar factory where "your friend might find employment during that week of economical idleness." Wishing that he too were flying west, and alluding to their road trip of 1922. Enclosing several "odds and ends" that he has been meaning to forward, including an issue of "The Cornell Plantations" and other "ornithology stuff."

1 item (2 p.), unbound ; 27.9 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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