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Henry Augustus Shute Collection, Accession 8984, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 1968 Sep 6
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Includes autograph note; mentions that John Augustus Brown , Brown's father, was his friend at Harvard ; gives 2 addresses where they lived together; signed Henry A. Shute , "Plupy."]
[Declines invitations to be a "patroness" for a Fitney Players Performance; says he would look very badly in a low-neck dress, silk stockings, not to mentions that fact that satin slippers are not available in a size 10; says he is disinclined to buy cosmetics, to have his hair permanently waved, etc.; wonders if Brackett had Mrs. Shute in mind.]