[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Letter by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Charles Agvent]

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Austerlitz, NY, 
26 October 1944. An AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) "Edna" to G.D. (Dante) 
Bergonzi, written on the verso of the second page of a TYPED LETTER 
SIGNED by her husband Eugen Boissevain on 6" x 8" personal stationery to 
the same recipient. In part: "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.... I have sat here, still as a statue except for the 
outwardly imperceptible movements of my remembering mind, 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...." Millay's husband, in his letter, mentions that she 
"finally went to the Doctors Hospital in New York for three months where 
she was entirely cured of all her troubles" [for a nervous breakdown 
brought on at least in part by her addiction to alcohol and drugs]. 
Dante Bergonzi and Eolo Testi, also mentioned in the letter, were part 
of a quartet that often rehearsed in the Millay home, the two even 
living for some time with the Millays. With the original envelope. This 
is Letter 239 in LETTERS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, 1952, edited by 
Allan Ross Macdougall. Near Fine. (#020645)        $1,500

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