In this letter, written during Moore’s senior year at Bryn Mawr, she describes a trip to Philadelphia to see the great pianist Paderewski at the Academy of Music. As the letter shows, Moore loved music and was an avid concert-goer. Moore and her group bought scalped tickets for the performance, and afterwards waited on Locust Street to see the performers.

This letter is one of a group of over two hundred Moore items that were recently discovered in central Pennsylvania and presented to the museum.

Marianne Moore, autograph letter signed to her family.17 February 1909. Moore 1330/13.37