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CRANE, HART. Typed letter signed ("Hart") to his close friend (and literary executor) Sam Loveman, Mixcoac, Mexico, 20 April [1932]. Half-page, 4to, single-spaced, a few tiny fold holes.
WRITTEN SEVEN DAYS BEFORE HIS SUICIDE
"Tommy may already have told you that I am sailing from Vera Cruz for NY on the 24th. A suit has been brought against the estate [of his father who died the previous summer] which practcially [sic] robs me of my total inheritance, at least all income is cut off indefinately. I naturally can't remain longer here. Hope to be able to stay a few days in NY before going into Chagrin Falls [Ohio] exile. And to see something of you. Hastily, with love..."
Crane received passage money the following day and on 24 April he sailed from Vera Cruz with Peggy Cowley (with whom he was living in Mexico). Just before noon on 27 April, with the ship 275 miles north of Havana bound for New York, Crane committed suicide by jumping overboard. See John Unterecker, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane (New York, 1969), pp. 742-759.
WRITTEN SEVEN DAYS BEFORE HIS SUICIDE
"Tommy may already have told you that I am sailing from Vera Cruz for NY on the 24th. A suit has been brought against the estate [of his father who died the previous summer] which practcially [sic] robs me of my total inheritance, at least all income is cut off indefinately. I naturally can't remain longer here. Hope to be able to stay a few days in NY before going into Chagrin Falls [Ohio] exile. And to see something of you. Hastily, with love..."
Crane received passage money the following day and on 24 April he sailed from Vera Cruz with Peggy Cowley (with whom he was living in Mexico). Just before noon on 27 April, with the ship 275 miles north of Havana bound for New York, Crane committed suicide by jumping overboard. See John Unterecker, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane (New York, 1969), pp. 742-759.