[Ives, Charles. (1874–1954)] [Silverman, Kenneth. (1936–2017)] Van Wyck, Amelia Ives.
Autograph Letter about Charles Ives
Autograph letter from Amelia Ives Van Wyck, cousin of the composer Charles Ives, to the writer Ken Silverman, regarding her recollections of Charles Ives. March 25, 1975. 1 p. Van Wyck writes: "My dear Mr. Silverman, It was before he was married that Charlie and some of his Yale classmates had an apartment on Gramercy Park. They called it Poverty Flat and kept the name when they moved to Central Park West. I never knew the number of of the Gramercy Park building. I saw very little of Charlie until he married Harmony Twitchell. They lived first in West 11th Street, then in the Henry Sedgwick's house in East 22nd. The yard joined that of Mrs. Sedgwick's mother, who lived on the north, or 21st Street side of the Park. A key to the Park went with the house, and Charlie's nephews were taken there to play, so seeing the gate unlocked, perhaps helping unlock it made it seem to their youthful minds that the house was on the Park. Please forgive the long delay in answering your letter. Some days my arthritic fingers will not hold a pen. Very truly yours, Amelia Ives Van Wyck. Hope you can read this scrawl." Folding creases; overall very fine. 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14.7 x 19.7 cm).Kenneth Eugene Silverman was an American biographer and educator. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bancroft Prize for his 1984 biography of Cotton Mather, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. Silverman, who specialized In Colonial American literature, was a professor of English at New York University until his retirement in 2001. (16288)
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