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Lea, Fanny Heaslip, 1884-1955. Fannie Heaslip Lea letters to [Robert Underwood] Johnson [manuscript], 1910 Jan 16, Mar 15, Apr 9.

Title: Fannie Heaslip Lea letters to [Robert Underwood] Johnson [manuscript], 1910 Jan 16, Mar 15, Apr 9.

Letter #1: 1910 Jan 16. Answers Johnson's question, giving a list of "what else I have written," naming stories in numerous national publications. She lists some personal references, including Henry Mills Alden, Robert A. Bowen and Hayden Carruth. She responds in detail to Johnson's suggested changes to her story "Little Anna & The Gentleman Adventurer." Letter #2: 1910 Mar 15. Writes that she will send a story he has asked for and calls attention to a spelling error in her middle name. Letter #3: 1920 Apr 9. Lea asks about payment methods at "The Century" and notes that she has not received a check for her first story with them.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Bennett, Susan Smythe. Susan Smythe Bennett papers, 1899-1952.

Title: Susan Smythe Bennett papers, 1899-1952.

Papers consist of correspondence, accounts, and a guidebook. Correspondence (1899-1951) includes her letters (1899-1915) to John Bennett concerning their courtship (1899-1902), a trip to Europe (1900), their marriage (1902), domestic arrangements, children, social life in Charleston (S.C.), the Smythe family, the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition (1902), ghost stories, and other matters. There is additional correspondence (1917-1951) between Susan S. Bennett and John Bennett, her children John H. Bennett (b. 1907), Jane Bennett Wells, and Susan A. Bennett, her grand-daughter Martha Bennett Stiles, and others. Topics include household management, social life, family matters, a trip to Japan and the Philippines to attend the marriage of Jane Bennett Wells (1923), and a visit to England and France (1930) during which she met Rudyard Kipling. Also included is her correspondence with relative Robert Adger Bowen which discusses, among other things, Ashtabula, Woodburn, and Rivoli plantations. Nineteen bound volumes (1902-1952) contain accounts for household expenses including wages of servants and allowances. A partial, typewritten manuscript (59 p.) is entitled "Bennett's Guide Book to Charleston."

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.19 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36794134 View