Museum object · Documents and Manuscripts
Letter to Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart from Alexandra Truitt
October 15, 1993
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A handwritten letter from Alexandra Truitt, on behalf of the offices of Richard Avedon, to Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin's younger sister. In the letter, Truitt inquires about a photograph of James Baldwin that was taken by Richard Avedon in New York in October 1946.
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Catalog reference: 2011.99.33