Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Mittie Horton Creekmore (09 April 1952)

Authors

Hubert Creekmore
Mittie Horton Creekmore

Identifier

MUM01790_b04_f02_002

Files

Description

Hubert writes from New York City to his mother in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding personal and professional matters. He discusses John Valentine Schaffner's recent party, attended by harpsichorist Sylvia Marlow, the painter Leonide, poet-critic Lloyd Frankenberg, painter Loren MacIver, and others. He also attended a party for writer Frederic Prokosch. He attended another party hosted by Nation writer Ernest Jones and Nation editor Margaret Marshall and attended by novelist Isabel Bolton, Charles Scribner's Sons editor John Hall Wheelock. He discusses going to dinner with "two Japanese named Yashima" and Clifford Wright. He mentions Perdita McPherson Schaffner, Brown Furlow, and David Smythe. Hubert states that many of these people were at Yaddo artists' retreat. Includes envelope.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Creekmore, Hubert, 1907-1966; Authors, American -- 20th century; Jackson (Miss.); New York (N.Y.); Schaffner, John Valentine, 1888-; Marlowe, Sylvia; Frankenberg, Lloyd, 1907-1975; MacIver, Loren, 1909-1998; Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989; Marshall, Margaret, 1900-1974; Bolton, Isabel, 1883-1975; Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York (N.Y.); Wright, Clifford, 1919-; Schaffner, Perdita; Yaddo (Artists' colony)

Publication Date

4-9-1952

Relational Format

archival material

Original Format

letters (correspondence)

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/412/

Original Collection

Hubert Creekmore Collection

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Comments

9 April 1952

Recommended Citation

Creekmore, Hubert and Creekmore, Mittie Horton, "Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Mittie Horton Creekmore (09 April 1952)" (1952). Hubert Creekmore Collection. 515.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/515