Two items: an ink signature, “Rockwell Kent,” on an off-white 2 x 2.5 slip affixed to a slightly larger sheet; and a TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, January 9, 1940, sent to noted world traveler Philip Cummings, in full: “I am constantly, as just seeing you reminded me, leaving undone those things which I ought to have done, but in respect to friends, and to men like yourself, if there are any men like yourself, I am not apt to leave unthought the thoughts that I ought to think. It is merely to tell you this that I am sending you this note, and to tell you that I am really very appreciative of your friendship that overlooks both my carelessness as a correspondent and as a neighbor. I was very much impressed by what I learned from you of your activities now, and very sorry to hear that you are not having a very easy time earning a living as a lecturer. If some time this winter you and your wife could get off for a couple of days, I wish that you would come up here, and since this suggestion is made primarily in my own interests, and since you are a lecturer and quite used to such propositions as I am about to make, I want to tell you that ‘this organisation is prepared to pay your expenses, though the budget upon which it is operating will not permit it to offer any remuneration.’ Please take this seriously.” In overall fine condition.
