American journalist, avant-garde author, and illustrator Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is best known for her modernist novel Nightwood (1936).
American journalist, avant-garde author, and illustrator Djuna Barnes wrote these three letters to fellow writer and journalist Michael Perkins. Each typed letter bears Barnes’s signature. In these letters, Barnes declines to take on more work, thanks Perkins for his article, and promises to send a signed copy of her Selected Works (1962).
Mailing envelopes bear Barnes's Patchin Place address.