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Correspondence of Dorothea Wolfgram, Publication Office, Washingtion University, with persons in the 1969 Washington University writers-in-residence program. Includes letters of Robert Coover, James Dickey, Herbert Gold, Richard Howard, James Merrill, carbons of Wolfgram's letters and a copy of the Washington University Magazine (Summer 1969) containing an article resulting from the correspondence

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Commonplace book of poems by Withington and others and original pen and ink drawings by unidentified persons. Poets include Lord Byron, James Gates Percival and George Bancroft. Written in two different hands. Manuscript, paper covered boards, leather spine, one cover loose. 9 1/2 x 8" 96 pages

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Consists of correspondence from Williams to John Israel Smith and Ellen Stevenson and the text of Williams' lecture at the 1955 Oreon E. Scott Symposium on "The Writer and His Public"

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Typed letter signed from Williams to Henry Wenning commenting on recent Jargon imprints, his "mountain" books, Blues and Roots, James Lowell and author Reynolds Price, 1 page

Scope and Contents 1935 March 5. Autograph letter signed from Wilder to Max Kahn asking him to send books with he wishes inscribed to Wilder's New Haven address, 2 pages with envelope1935 August 8. Autograph postcard signed from Wilder to Max Kahn informing him of his sailing to Europe hoping that he will return with a book "worth autographing," 1 page1940 September 13. Autograph letter signed from Wilder to Max Kahn explaining the incorrect inscription on a book Kahn has sent him to...

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1964 June. Autograph speech for the commencement exercises of Washington University. Pencil with moderate manuscript revision, 8 pages

1985 July 9. Typed letter signed from Wilbur to Barbara Rea, Washington University Libraries BookMark Society, declining an invitation to read in St. Louis, 1 page

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Autograph letter signed from Whittier to Mrs. Stafford enclosing a book by his friend and neighbor Dr. James R. Nichols (1819-1888) which has comforted him and he hopes will comfort her, 1 page. Written from Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1889 January 14

Photograph of Whittier mounted on card, signed by Whittier, circa 1863-1870. Photographer: J.W. Black and Co. Address: 163 Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts

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Typescript [photocopy] of Whittemore's notes to his lecture entitled "Little Magazines and Professionalism," Hurst Lounge, Washington University, 6 pages

A tape of this lecture is located within the Modering Literature Multimedia Collection (MS124),  Recording #149

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Autograph letter signed to "My dear old Chap" from "BM" on stationery of "Hidcote House, Campden, Gloucestershire, [England]." 1 page. The author, Benjamin Chandler, sends his friend a copy of the book 'I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi,' an important example of craft printing from the Ashendene Press, saying "This book is in better company in your library than in mine."

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Autograph letter signed, 5 pages