Mary Garden Remembers James Huneker
Autograph Letter, signed (“Mary Garden”), to John Quinn, lamenting the death of James Huneker.
New York: 1 March 1921.
Ink on paper, two folded sheets of Ritz-Carlton Hotel stationery, six pages. 8vo. Mary Garden Remembers James Huneker. With Quinn’s office stamp, Received Mar 4 1921. With autograph mailing envelope. Very good Provenance: John Quinn; his sister Julia Anderson; and by descent. Item #323123
Soprano Mary Garden (1874-1967), writes to literary patron John Quinn, after the death of James Huneker, “Oh! if only you had told me of the need Mrs Huneker was in right after the death of my dear Mr. Huneker … I should have loved doing something for the memory of Mr. Huneker”
Huneker’s book Bedouins (1920) had largely been devoted to Garden, and he had praised “the gift of versatility” in his chronicle of her performances; Quinn was a close friend of Huneker, who dedicated Ivory Apes and Peacocks (1915) to Quinn.
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