October 5, 1961
Dear Peter:
It was very thoughtful of you to send me a book explaining James Joyce’s “Ulysses”. All I need now is another book explaining this study by Stuart Gilbert who, if memory serves, painted the celebrated picture of George Washington which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum. I realize that there is some two hundred years’ difference in their ages, but any man who can explain Joyce must be very old and very wise.
You disappeared rather mysteriously the other night, but I attribute this to your life of crime in the movies.
Best to you both.
Regards,
Groucho
Hahahahahahaha. Brilliant.
A Groucho letter! I love the book containing them, and your variations are invariably intriguing, too. Thanks!
Billy – I love the book, too! I love picking it up and opening a page at random – it’s always something cool.
His correspondence with TS Eliot is my particular favorite because … they both just seem so DIFFERENT to me – like: TS Eliot and GROUCHO??? But I just love those letters!!
Groucho’s book of letters is the only book I go to bed with.
Geez, I just realized Margaret Dumont would get all flustered if she only knew.