Title

Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Mittie Horton Creekmore (14 November 1960)

Authors

Hubert Creekmore
Mittie Horton Creekmore

Identifier

MUM01790_b05_f02_012

Files

Description

Hubert writes from New York City to his mother in Jackson, Mississippi regarding personal and professional matters, including: a recent visit with Eudora Welty and Ruth Forbes; conversation with Eudora Welty and their attendance at a performance of "Fiorello;" cocktails with Eudora Welty, Jean Stafford, A.J. Liebling (New Yorker), Howard Miss (New Yorker); office cocktail parties; Creekmore's visit with his former editor at Random House; meeting with an editor at the New American Library, who was also a Mississippian; meeting with an editor at Holiday magazine; Creekmore's recommendation of Charlotte C. [possibly Charlotte Capers] to Holiday; election returns; a social event hosted by John Schaffner for a departing author; a visit to the country with John Schaffner and his sons; Perdita Schaffner's trip to California to visit Lotte Lenya and others in the "Three Penny Opera;" Perdita's mother, Bryher; update on Creekmore's translation work; Creekmore's advice for Bill Beavers about collecting first editions of William Faulkner's novels; Gotham Book Mart and Frances Steloff; House of Books and Mrs. Louis Cohn; publisher of Eudora Welty's private editions. Includes newspaper clipping of article, "On the Air" by Bob Williams and envelope. The article addresses the recent television coverage of the U.S. Presidential election and mentions Creekmore's Faith.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Creekmore, Hubert, 1907-1966; Authors, American -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.); Jackson (Miss.); Creekmore, Mittie Horton, 1878-1971; Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001; Schaffner, John Valentine, 1888-; Schaffner, Perdita; Forbes, Ruth; La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947 -- Drama; Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979; Liebling, A.J. (Abbott Joseph), 1904-1963; Moss, Howard, 1922-1987; New Yorker magazine; Random House (Firm); New American Library; Holiday (Philadelphia, Pa.); Bryher, 1894-1983; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; Lenya, Lotte; Threepenny Opera; Gotham Book Mart; Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989; House of Books, Ltd. (New York, N.Y.); Cohn, Louis Henry, 1888-1953; Cohn, Marguerite Arnold, 1887-1984

Publication Date

11-14-1960

Relational Format

archival material

Finding Aid

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

Original Collection

Hubert Creekmore Collection

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Comments

1960 November 14

Recommended Citation

Creekmore, Hubert and Creekmore, Mittie Horton, "Letter from Hubert Creekmore to Mittie Horton Creekmore (14 November 1960)" (1960). Hubert Creekmore Collection. 684.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/684