Autograph post card from W. H. Auden to Donald Pearce, as professor to student in the English class of the University of Michigan, reading "English 135. Your semester grade was A+. Thank you very much. W. H. Auden." The verso is addressed in Auden's hand to "Mr D. R. Pearce, 1011 Michigan, Ann Arbor." The recipient would go on to be Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the authors of books on W. B. Yeats and William Blake. At the time he was studying under Auden in the same class as Kenneth Millar, aka Ross Macdonald (who also received an A+).
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