AGEE, JAMES. Autograph manuscripts (two drafts) of "Impressions of Havana," an article written for Fortune magazine, n.p., [1930s]. Together 5 pages, small 4to, in pencil with some revisions, the first draft (2 pages) unfinished . Agee, his wife, and the photographer, Walker Evans approaching Cuba on a liner: "...About noon on Tuesday, low hills enlarged and lay by us on our left, cloven, green-brown, low and smoothly muscled; low stretched...into the water; drinking cattle; and here and there, miles ahead, villages, glinting like crumbs of glass in the muted sun; and this was the island, Cuba, her smooth lounging capes, harmless and sensitive looking like the South, cane, tobacco, steaming swamps in the sun: of whom, the night before, softly, the dangerous songs had been sung..."
AGEE, JAMES. Autograph manuscripts (two drafts) of "Impressions of Havana," an article written for Fortune magazine, n.p., [1930s]. Together 5 pages, small 4to, in pencil with some revisions, the first draft (2 pages) unfinished . Agee, his wife, and the photographer, Walker Evans approaching Cuba on a liner: "...About noon on Tuesday, low hills enlarged and lay by us on our left, cloven, green-brown, low and smoothly muscled; low stretched...into the water; drinking cattle; and here and there, miles ahead, villages, glinting like crumbs of glass in the muted sun; and this was the island, Cuba, her smooth lounging capes, harmless and sensitive looking like the South, cane, tobacco, steaming swamps in the sun: of whom, the night before, softly, the dangerous songs had been sung..."
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