Typed letter signed,from Katherine Anne Porter, regarding her relationship with Hart Crane. College Park, Md., July 21, 1975
On an 8 1 2 in. x 11 in. sheet of white Eagle-A Trojan Bond paper. . Written to Vivian Pemberton, Emeritus Professor English at Kent State University and a recognized authority on Hart Crane. With a stamped, self-addressed envelope provided by Vivian Pemberton and postmarked July 22, 1975. The letter shows some small corrections in ink, two horizontal folds from being mailed, and a small tan spot in one corner. “My acquaintanceship with Hart Crane was a particularly gruesome episode in my life and I have read very little about it.” She continues by mentioning John Unterecker’s biography of Crane, “Voyager," then states that a letter she had written to Philip Horton for use in his biography was either misunderstood or deliberately misused. She writes about Crane’s meeting with the artist David Siqueiros in 1931 and about her having her picture taken by photographer Alvarez Bravo, and says that when she left for Europe on a Guggenheim fellowship, she was: “...desperately happy to be out of the indescribably horrible mess that Siqueiros, a really dangerous man, and Crane, quite literally at that time an unendurable one, had made out of my life and almost everyone else’s around them.” She ends by writing: “you will realize that this is a purely private letter and you are not to quote it or show it to anyone.”. Item #32704
Price: $2,750.00