Letter from Arthur Davison Ficke, Gladys Brown, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Eugen Boissevain congratulating John Howard Lawson, January 21, 1925

Letter from Arthur Davison Ficke, Gladys Brown, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Eugen Boissevain congratulating John Howard Lawson, January 21, 1925

Records and correspondence; Letters; Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950; Lawson, John Howard, 1894-1977

Letter handwritten by Arthur Davison Ficke on his personal letterhead and signed along with Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gladys Brown, and Eugen Boissevain to John Howard Lawson, complimenting him on his Broadway show Processional, dated January 21, 1925. Ficke was a poet, playwright, and novelist. His second wife was Gladys Brown Ficke, a painter and illustrator. Millay was a poet and playwright known for feminist activism. In New York as a budding poet, Millay initially worked with the Provincetown Players and the Theatre Guild. In 1923 she married Eugen Jan Boissevain.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

John Howard Lawson papers, 1905-1977, 1/5/MSS 016: Box 1, Folder 1

Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

1925-01-21

Hamilton-Brehm, Anne Marie, 1970-

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