Manuscript Note from Patricia "Tish" Alsop to Katherine "Kay" Evans on printed letterhead of Evangeline Bruce

Very Good. Letter. Autograph; Manuscript Note from Patricia "Tish" Alsop to Katherine "Kay" Evans on printed letterhead of Evangeline Bruce Letterhead: 1405 Thirty Fourth Street / Washington, D.C. 20007 //"Dear Kay - / On the airplane, on / paper snitched from Vangie's / house -- just a / few words to say how / very much I loved being / part of last night's / wonderful dinner party! / It was so reminiscent / of other wonderful, similar / evenings -- you and / Rowlie in great form, / the house a treasure // (your fabulous glassed in / patio is one of the show- / stoppers of Washington!), / wonderful conversation, dear / old friends, and one of the / best dinners I've ever had / the pleasure to taste! // A million thanks to / you both -- had a / terrific time -- / And you and Mary deserve / the Croix de Guerre for / coming to the church! // xx / Tish" From one noted Georgetown hostess to another -- Patricia "Tish" Alsop, MI5 decoder and wife of famed journalist Stewart Alsop to Katherine "Kay" Evans, editor and wife of noted journalist Rowland Evans. “Tish Alsop was a charming, beautiful, well-born war bride of a handsome, dashing, brainy war hero-turned-famous-journalist. They lived together at the center of an elite social group, the ‘Georgetown set,’ at a time when Washington basically ran the world." [Evan Thomas, author] PROVENANCE: Katherine "Kay" Winton Evans was a Washington writer and editor and with her husband political columnist and television journalist Rowland Evans, Jr. a major figure in the social life of Georgetown, Washington, DC from the 1960s on. Mrs. Evans grew up in Minnesota outside Minneapolis on the shore of Lake Minnetonka; her father David J. Winton was president of the Winton Lumber Company. She graduated from the Putney School in Vermont and was a 1946 graduate of Vassar College, where she was editor of the Vassar Chronicle. After college she worked on the editorial page of The Minneapolis Times, and moved to Washington in 1948 where she met and married Rowland Evans, Jr., then a reporter for the Associated Press Washington Hill bureau. Mrs. Evans was on staff of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey and later for Senator Paul H. Douglas. In 1980 she became the managing editor of The Washington Journalism Review, a publication on the press and in 1983 became editor, a position she held until 1987. Mrs. Evans was a trustee for Vassar College for 15 years. Their home was the site of many memorable gatherings of influential and remarkable people from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. ; Signed by Author .