Connections To Gertrude Stein
Levy was the subject of one of Gertrude Stein's early word portraits, and the subject of much effort on the part of Toklas and Stein to return Levy to San Francisco sans Alice B. Toklas, her original traveling companion. (Stein, 1934, p. 105-07).
Levy wrote a description of the famed Rousseau Banquet which was published in a limited edition of 30 copies, in 1985 as part of a UC Berkeley seminar: (discussion of the Levy posthumous publication appears at page 4 of this Charles Hobson catalog).
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