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Author QuotedRandell Jarrell
Title QuotedPictures from an Institution
Date (Year/Month/Day)1955/08/06
Imprint[S.l.] : Alfred A. Knopf. 1954
QuotationHave you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its way"”a beautiful job on the faculty of a "progressiv" women's college. You would love it. I also managed to get [Evelyn] Waugh's latest Officers and Gentlemen which is slow in parts, but in some spots as good as anything he has ever don"”especially a marvelous bleak island off the coast of Scotland, inhabited by a weird laird and a lot of commandos. Maybe you have read it. All this is a kind of a binge I have been having, before diving into the bushes to disappear. But at any cost get hold of the Jarrell book. I wish I could send you the copy I borrowed"”but it is borrowed "¦
Quotation SourceThe Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 220
Letter toSister Therese Lenfoehr, s.d.s.
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