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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF LEONARD R. LEVINE
WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Typed letter signed ("E. Wharton"), to Mrs. Charles Hull. Saint-Claire du Chateau Hyères, 14 February 1926. 1 page, 4to, on her stationary with address printed in blue at top, one word holograph insertion, pasted to mount, matted and framed with portrait.
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WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Typed letter signed ("E. Wharton"), to Mrs. Charles Hull. Saint-Claire du Chateau Hyères, 14 February 1926. 1 page, 4to, on her stationary with address printed in blue at top, one word holograph insertion, pasted to mount, matted and framed with portrait.
WHARTON ON LANDSCAPE DECORATION. Wharton sends thanks to Mrs. Hull for her recent letter and for photographs of a garden sculpture: "I agree with you that the background is unfortunate, but the statue is quite charming and I am so glad to have seen it. As you say, it is rather too important for my little pool; and since I saw you I have had the good fortune to receive, as a present, a charming little eighteenth century statue in lead, which is exactly in scale and which completes that part of my garden in the happiest possible way." Wharton had moved to France in 1907 and at this time was living at Ste. Claire le Chateau on an extended lease. She negotiated the outright purchase of the chateau a year later. Two splendid evergreens were the pride of the Ste. Claire gardens which, according to her biographer R.W.B. Lewis, were "a projection of her own nature" (Lewis, Edith Wharton, A Biography, New York, 1975). Neither this nor any letter to Mr. or Mrs. Hull appear in The Letters, ed. R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, New York, 1988.
WHARTON ON LANDSCAPE DECORATION. Wharton sends thanks to Mrs. Hull for her recent letter and for photographs of a garden sculpture: "I agree with you that the background is unfortunate, but the statue is quite charming and I am so glad to have seen it. As you say, it is rather too important for my little pool; and since I saw you I have had the good fortune to receive, as a present, a charming little eighteenth century statue in lead, which is exactly in scale and which completes that part of my garden in the happiest possible way." Wharton had moved to France in 1907 and at this time was living at Ste. Claire le Chateau on an extended lease. She negotiated the outright purchase of the chateau a year later. Two splendid evergreens were the pride of the Ste. Claire gardens which, according to her biographer R.W.B. Lewis, were "a projection of her own nature" (Lewis, Edith Wharton, A Biography, New York, 1975). Neither this nor any letter to Mr. or Mrs. Hull appear in The Letters, ed. R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, New York, 1988.