Companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in What Is Remembered (1877-1967). ALS signed “Alice Toklas,” one page both sides, 5.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, April 10, 1947. Letter to Julian Sawyer, in part: "Four in America is being announced by the Yale University Press for autumn publication with a preface by Thornton Wilder. No I never received your Wilder and Stein article from the R. of Literature. Can't you get them to really send it…I've just had a letter saying that the sale of tickets for The Mother of Us All has been announced. I must wait patiently until Virgil comes over when he will play it for me the way he played The Four Saints for us. Every one says he has made lovely music for it. I long to hear it. The Picasso portrait has gone to the Metropolitan Museum…Do you know the poetry of Kathleen Raine—an English (possibly Irish) poet—Gertrude had only seen two short poems of hers but thought she was a real poet. There's a new book of her poems just out." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Toklas's hand. Upon her death in 1946, Gertude Stein bequest the 1905-06 portrait of her done by Pablo Picasso to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. A wonderful letter rife with arts world associations.
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