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ALS signed “John,” two pages, 8 x 11.5, no date. Handwritten letter to jazz bandleader Eddie Condon and his family—"Dear Phyllis and Eddie and Maggie"—in part: "Asking me to recommend any one for any thing is a risk, I hope you know and have calculated. I am enclosing the form, which you should see, and I hope she gets the job. Meanwhile, we are thinking of people she would like to meet. But that hardly ever works. Elaine will write you about the Gianessis and the Gianessis about Maggie and from there she can go any place because they know everyone, and besides they are great fun. I know it's a Venetian name. They came to Florida three or four hundred years ago.
Maggie—don't try to gulp Firenze, take it in little nibbles. It grows on you little by little…Go up to Fiesole and remember that Lorenzo the Magnificent lived there and…the David was carved…on the edge of the Piazza della Republica. And walk up the path of Dante's Trail on the other side where he strolled every day before working on the Comedia." On the next page, he adds a handwritten postscript, signed "J.S.," in part: "I am returning the clippings which you may want to keep but I am keeping two of the photographs. Maggie will do just fine in Florence." In very good to fine condition, with overall creasing, and a few small tears to the top edge.
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