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[Literature & Art] Cummings, E.E. (1894 - 1962). Autograph Note about Birds. A short autograph letter from the American writer and artist known for his distinctively avant-garde poetry, which often employed unconventional punctuation and capitalization. ALS, in red crayon with blue underlining, on the poet's printed 4 Patchin Place letterhead card, to his friend Willard Trask, mailed on May 13, 1959. The message reads "never heard of so many birds (+ such birds!) ----- congratulations / EEC."
Cummings and Trask were friends of many years, probably beginning at Harvard. Trask was a translator and expert in several fields of natural history, including birds. As the date is May 13th, which is generally the time of the height of the warbler and New England transient bird season, Trask must have had a big day of birdwatching, communicated it to Cummings in NYC and Cummings was here writing him a simple congratulatory note.
Cummings and Trask were friends of many years, probably beginning at Harvard. Trask was a translator and expert in several fields of natural history, including birds. As the date is May 13th, which is generally the time of the height of the warbler and New England transient bird season, Trask must have had a big day of birdwatching, communicated it to Cummings in NYC and Cummings was here writing him a simple congratulatory note.
[Literature & Art] Cummings, E.E. (1894 - 1962). Autograph Note about Birds. A short autograph letter from the American writer and artist known for his distinctively avant-garde poetry, which often employed unconventional punctuation and capitalization. ALS, in red crayon with blue underlining, on the poet's printed 4 Patchin Place letterhead card, to his friend Willard Trask, mailed on May 13, 1959. The message reads "never heard of so many birds (+ such birds!) ----- congratulations / EEC."
Cummings and Trask were friends of many years, probably beginning at Harvard. Trask was a translator and expert in several fields of natural history, including birds. As the date is May 13th, which is generally the time of the height of the warbler and New England transient bird season, Trask must have had a big day of birdwatching, communicated it to Cummings in NYC and Cummings was here writing him a simple congratulatory note.
Cummings and Trask were friends of many years, probably beginning at Harvard. Trask was a translator and expert in several fields of natural history, including birds. As the date is May 13th, which is generally the time of the height of the warbler and New England transient bird season, Trask must have had a big day of birdwatching, communicated it to Cummings in NYC and Cummings was here writing him a simple congratulatory note.