W. K. Rose Papers

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W. K. Rose Papers

1914-1970

The William K. Rose Papers document Vassar College English Professor Rose’s study of modernist literature, Vorticism, and in particular, the writings of Wyndham Lewis. The majority of the correspondence in the collection documents Rose’s efforts to locate and study Lewis’s letters to friends and associates. Files include correspondence, research and subject files, press clippings, manuscripts, notebooks, playbills, periodicals, photographs, and audio tape.

10.6 cubic feet (13 boxes)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677254

Vassar College

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