1937 September 29 Booth Tarkington to Mr. Silberman, a New York City art dealer, complains that he has not seen a whale all summer long, regrets that he left before meeting his English visitors, who soon sail for home. He describes the activities of one of them, "Mr. Warner, 78, dances wildly every evening with Betty - tangos, Russian jigs, minuets and maudlin-like interpretative dancing." Tarkington also encloses the October issue of the little magazine of the Literary Guild, with advance notices of his book Rumblin Galleries for which Silberman supplied some background knowledge, as well as sending a copy to Mr. Vose in Boston since "they're calling him 'Mr. Rumblin' in Boston and elsewhere, and your brother circulated the rumor that I was Vose Galleries 'ideal client.' He also mentions having to decline an invitation to give an art lecture at the Minneapolis Museum of Art due to his health where "like your brother's favorite art lecturer, I could have mentioned my yacht."

Containers:
Box-folder 1:24
Physical description:
ALS, 2 pages on 1 leaf, in pencil on orange paper

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Location of collection:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
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