MILLAY EDNA ST VINCENT Autograph Letter Signed Edna

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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. Autograph Letter Signed, "Edna," to G.D. Bergonzi, written on verso of the second page of a Typed Letter Signed by her husband Eugen Boissevain to the same recipient, an emotional note remembering a night before the war when they played a Mozart trio. 1 page, 8vo (the typed letter: 2 pages, personal stationery). With the original envelope. Austerlitz, 26 October 1944

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"I think so often and with so much pleasure of our night here at Steepletop when, because I felt sick and sad and nothing could cheer me up you and Eolo suddenly departed to the studio and as suddenly returned, sternly marching into the drawingroom with fiddle and cello and the music of that lovely Mozart trio, which you insisted that the three of us play together and at once, I to play the piano part at sight!--and it did not go so very badly either; and there were even moments . . . thinking of that moment that great moment which happened to the three of us, happened even to me, that moment above all earthly moments exalted, when all at once the music took things into its own hands, disregarding quite--for so it seemed--us who were trying so hard to express it . . . ."