Preservation photocopy of a carbon copy of a typed letter : [New York], to Oscar Danziggers [i.e., Dancigers], 1948 June 29.

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Preservation photocopy of a carbon copy of a typed letter : [New York], to Oscar Danziggers [i.e., Dancigers], 1948 June 29.

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Asking him to acquire three copies of Edgcumb Pinchon's book Zapata the Unconquerable and bring them to three experts on Zapata (Magana, Sote y Gama, and "the little man who is the curator of the State of Morelos library") and to ask them how much of the biography is true and how much is "the invention of Pinchon." Remarking that Pinchon "uses a number of highly dramatic scenes" which he would like to incorporate in the film Viva Zapata! if they are accurate.

1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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