Hervey Allen letters to Thomas Ollive Mabbott 1920-1941

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Hervey Allen letters to Thomas Ollive Mabbott 1920-1941

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American novelist, biographer, and poet. This folder contains letters from Hervey Allen to Thomas Ollive Mabbott spanning over twenty years, from 1920-1942 discussing their work. Many of the letters mention Allen's biography of Edgar Allan Poe. There is one letter to Maureen Cobb Mabbott in the folder and one autograph.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6314230

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1898-1968

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Thomas Ollive Mabbott (July 6, 1898 – May 15, 1968) was an American professor and scholar of literature, perhaps best known for his research on writer Edgar Allan Poe. He has also done studies on John Milton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Chatterton, and Edward Coote Pinkney. Mabbott was born and raised in New York City. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University, earning his AB (1920), AM (1921), and Ph.D. (1923) in English. After graduating from Columbia, Mabbott taught English literatu...

Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949

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"Hervey-Allen, born Dec. 8, 1889, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S., died Dec. 28, 1949, Coconut Grove, Fla., [was] in full William Hervey Allen, Jr., [an] American poet, biographer, and novelist who had a great impact on popular literature with his historical novel Anthony Adverse." -- "Hervey Allen," Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9005788 (Accessed 10 February 2009). From the description of Hervey Allen letter, 21 December 1936. (University of Georgia). WorldCat...

Mabbott, Maureen Cobb

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