Booth Tarkington Papers, 1812-1956 1812-1956 1899-1946

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Booth Tarkington Papers, 1812-1956 1812-1956 1899-1946

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Consists of extensive writings -- novels, plays, short stories, articles, film scenarious, radio scripts -- and correspondence of "The Gentleman from Indiana" Booth Tarkington, noted American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

122.50 cubic feet; 207 boxes, 56 flat cases, 10 cartons, 3 customized boxes, 2 packages

Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special CollectionsManuscripts Division

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College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.) Class of 1893.

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Trotter, Elizabeth Stanley

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