KATHARINE CORNELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/29/1942 - HFSID 32634
Typed Letter signed: "Kit", 1p, 5½x6¾.
On letterhead of Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, San Francisco. 1942 January
29. To Donald and Ruth McDonald, New York, N.Y. In full: "Thank
you very much for your telegram on my opening.…"
Sale Price $295.00
Reg. $360.00
Condition: Lightly soiled
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KATHARINE CORNELL. Typed Letter signed: "Kit", 1p, 5½x6¾.
On letterhead of Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, San Francisco. 1942 January
29. To Donald and Ruth McDonald, New York, N.Y. In full: "Thank
you very much for your telegram on my opening. It was nice to know that you were
thinking of me, and I deeply appreciated all your good wishes for the success of
the play. Ever affectionately." Stage and screen actress Katharine Cornell
(1898-1974), who was known as "The First Lady of the American Theater",
won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Anthony and
Cleopatra (1948). She also appeared in a number of feature films, including
Stage Door Canteen (1943), and narrated The Unconquered (1954),
the story of Helen Keller. Lightly soiled. Paper separations (¾-inch, 2-inch) at
each edge of horizontal fold of signature page and blank conjoining page. Pencil
note (unknown hand) on verso of conjoined page. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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