Telegram to Robert Silvers

by Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick

$300 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Western Union Telegram, with envelope and hospital visiting card. 5-1/2 x 8-12 inches. Some yellowing, chips to the bottom corners; envelope chipping. Item #338435 Sent to Silvers while he was recovering in University Hospital, it reads in full: We love you get well right away / Cal and Elizabeth . Silvers was the editor of Harper's in 1959 when he published Elizabeth Hardwick's “The Decline of Book Reviewing” in Harper’s.

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