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Identification: MSS 099, F838
Creator: Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
Title: Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot
Inclusive Dates: 1953 February 10
Extent: 1 item (2 pp.)
Abstract: One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F838, Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
F838: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes
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American composer and author Paul Frederic Bowles (1910–1999), whose best-known fictional work is the novel The Sheltering Sky, is equally known as a prolific translator.
Sources:
Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher. An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
This handwritten and signed letter was written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot on stationery from "Treetops, Merriebrooke Lane, Stamford, Connecticut," the home of Libby Holman (Reynolds). Included with the letter is an envelope postmarked Greenwich, Conn., February 10, 1953. The brief two-page letter mentions that Bowles is in the United States and traveling with Ahmed (Yacoubi). He requests a visit with Gadiot, first wife of Beat writer Terry Southern.
Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot, 1953 February 10 [Box 56 F838]
1 item (2 pp.)
One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot. The letter is written on stationery printed: "Treetops, Merriebrooke Lane, Stamford, Connecticut," the home then of Libby Holman (Reynolds). Included with the letter is an envelope postmarked Greenwich, Conn., February 10, 1953.
