Natalie Clifford Barney letter to Gilbert Seldes
Summary
| Creator: | Barney, Natalie Clifford |
| Date(s): | 1958 December 12 |
| Call Number: | MSS 0099, F0519 |
| Language: | Materials entirely in English. |
| Abstract: | Autograph letter from Natalie Clifford Barney to Gilbert Seldes, dated December 12, 1958. |
| Physical Description: | 1 item (2 pages) |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: | Purchase, 1995. |
| Processing Information: | Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, February 2016. Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard |
Content Description
Autograph letter from Natalie Clifford Barney to Gilbert Seldes, dated December 12, 1958. An interesting letter to the critic, Gilbert Sedes, recounting her reminiscences of Muriel Draper, the memoirist: "Your name is associated with many memories...But among them I can recall only having really met Muriel Draper once, when she invited me to her flat and offered me her presidential chair, which I refused....Romaine Brooks Goddard, who painted her portrait (of which I send you amongst others this picture) enjoyed Muriel's settings...and as paintings are often a desirable confessional, Muriel evoked her home-life where 'good manners...were placed over very little to eat,' and it seems to me that this tell-tale portrait conveys the rest!" In a postscript, Barney adds that someone (name illegible) "is editing this next spring a book of mine Souvenirs indiscrets, but in which M.D. does not figure."
The "presidential chair likely is in reference to the Congress of American Women which Draper co-founded, and of which she was president. Barney's relationship with Romaine Brooks Goddard (they met during World War I) lasted nearly fifty years. Barney's Souvenirs indiscrets, a description of her literary acquaintances, was published in 1960.
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Shelving Summary
Box 33, F0519: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Access Information
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Preferred Citation
MSS 0099, F0519, Barney, Natalie Clifford, letter to Gilbert Seldes, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Related Materials
This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.
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Container List
| Natalie Clifford Barney letter to Gilbert Seldes, 1958 December 12 | 1 item(1 page) | Box 33, F0519 |