[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Alice B. Toklas Letter to Carl Van Vechten's Partner

[Charles Agvent]

TOKLAS, Alice B. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Rome, 8 January 1961. A 
one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" paper to Saul 
Mauriber. In part: "There never was a Christmas card (?) like the one 
you sent me. The cymbals and horns made music in my ears and the Angel 
was very real.... There is a real scramble in the convent who shall be 
given it but undoubtedly it is Sister Saint Paul who win [sic]. No one 
can ever refuse her anything.... Christmas night I was taken to a big 
dinner -- nine o'clock instead of a baked apple on a tray in my room at 
seven o’clock. There was finally turkey with truffles and a special 
outsize mushroom. For dessert an immense cake (twenty-four) at table on 
top in chocolate a country Christmas scene. Very good wine-- champagne 
like water. At 2.30 a.m. I was brought back to the convent gate. The 
next morning I apologized to Sister Saint Paul. Do you know the noise 
the Italians make like a hen chi chi chi? Well, she made it and said 
'Christmas only comes once a year.'" SIGNED "Alice." With the original 
envelope addressed in Toklas's hand. Faint creases from mailing. Fine.

Saul Mauriber was the last collaborator and partner of photographer Carl 
Van Vechten as well as photographic executor for Van Vechten's estate. 
Van Vechten and his wife, Fania Marinoff, had always been close to Stein 
and Toklas, and he was Stein's literary executor. They looked after 
Alice after Stein's death. (#020637)        $500

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/020637/alice-b-toklas/autograph-letter-signed-als

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