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Description: We offer two letters from the well-known actress Anne Baxter Klee (Easton, CT) to Trudy J. Hammer, an academic counselor at Emma Willard, regarding her daughter, Maginel Galt. In one she asks for help and in the other she thanks the counselor. Maginel Galt became a cloistered Catholic nun, a monastic life she left after 20 years.

In the one-page autograph letter signed of Sept 8, 1980, Anne Baxter introduces herself before she expresses her concerns and asks for help:

“As Maginel Galt’s mother I am of course wildly interested in her choice of college or university. This summer she landed at Colorado College and St. John’s in Santa Fe. Her “Bible” has been the New York Times paper-back “The  Insiders Guide to . . .  etc.”  She wants to go West, and was investigating Occidental. She has an unnecessarily low opinion of her academic abilities. Any concrete help from you would be deeply appreciated. I believe she can write. But that’s a large field in which she’s floundering. Help.

Sincerely/ Anne Baxter Klee”

Written on a 8 ½” x  6 ¼” sheet of personal stationery bearing a raised red crest stamp with the motto “Loyal au Mort” on the top left corner. The accompanying transmittal envelope is addressed in her hand.

In the second typed letter signed (March 16, 1981), she thanks Hammer for her “extraordinary, perceptive evaluation of Maginel,” and commends her on her use of the word “antic” to “[describe] a quality peculiar to Maginel.”

Typed and signed on 10 ½” x 7 ¼” personal stationery bearing a printed red crest stamp with the motto “Loyal au Mort” on the top left corner. Includes transmittal envelope. Item #A01990

Anne Baxter (1923-85) acted in films, on Broadway, and on television. She played the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sophie MacDonald in The Razor’s Edge (1946). She was also nominated for another Academy Award in 1951 for playing the titular role in All About Eve. She worked with Hollywood’s greatest directors throughout her career, including Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Cecil B. DeMille, and Fritz Lang.

Condition: Both letters in fine condition.