Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), poet and playwright, and Deems Taylor (1885-1966), American composer, radio commentator and music critic, autographed note on quarto album sheet.

Full handwritten signature of Millay in black ink followed by date: November 20, 1928 New York, and handwritten in parens: (I mean NEW YORK). Above her signature, written upside down in parens: (He wrote the music). 

Beneath Millay signature is an ornate handwritten one in black ink of Deems Taylor with date: 20 November 1928 New York, and handwritten in parens: (She wrote the words).

Note commemorates their collaboration on the opera The King's Henchman commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera House for which Millay wrote the libretto and Taylor composed the music. The opera, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon chronicles of Eadgar, King of Wessex, went into production in 1927 to high praise. As the New York Times described it: "the most effectively and artistically wrought American opera that has reached the stage."

Millay, society doyenne and feminist in NYC during the Roaring Twenties and beyond, in 1923 was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was known for her passionate sonnets, Bohemian lifestyle, and progressive political views.

Page is from the autograph album of Major James B. Pond, a lecture agent, who collected the signatures of those artists and personalities he handled. Well-preserved off-white sheet with minor toning of edges, no tears or creases. Included is the letter authenticating the signatures from Walter R. Benjamin, Autographs of NYC dated October 22, 1964.