Morley letter to Smith at Christmas 1949

By 1949 the BSI are in full swing and a deep personal friendship has grown between Christopher Morley and Edgar W. Smith. Morley sends the greeting below to Smith at Christmas 1949, complete with a bit of Sherlockian doggerel (Smith is often referred to in letters from Morley as Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable).

Letter, Christopher Morley to Edgar W. Smith, December 24, 1949

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Glen S. Miranker donated this letter to the BSI Trust in 2005.

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Related Materials

Letter, Morley to Smith, 12/24/49 (digitized image at Harvard)

Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957. Letters to Edgar Wadsworth Smith, 1939-1955.

Container 148.  2 folders.

Smith, Edgar Wadsworth, 1894-1960. Letters to Christopher Morley, 1938-1955. 

Container 211.  2 folders

"A Gift to the Archives" by Glen S. Miranker, For the Sake of the Trust, Vol 1. No.1 (Fall 2005), pp. 1-7.
The Fall 2005 Newsletter (5 MB PDF) includes details about the Morley-Smith correspondence.

See all the BSI Correspondence on our website.

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