Maxwell Evarts Perkins correspondence and papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1933-1948.

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Maxwell Evarts Perkins correspondence and papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1933-1948.

Papers of the American editor Maxwell Perkins relating to his literary executorship of the estate of American author Thomas Wolfe.

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Huebsch was vice president and chief editor at Viking Press in New York City. Viking became the publisher of Franz Werfel's works in English translation around 1935. Griesser was at Viking Press and wrote on Huebsch's behalf. Medinz was in the copyright dept. at Viking. McClure, Allen and Bradette all wrote letters to Viking Press concerning Werfel's novel The Song of Bernadette: McClure wrote a fan letter with a question that Huebsch forwarded to Werfel; Allen was requesting permission for use ...

George William Cottrell

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Burgess, Ernest M.

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Máximo Ibánez

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Russell, Lewis L., 1889-1961

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F. Harding Lock insurance.

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Scherz Verlag

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Reinhardt, Max

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Juanita Smith Kytle

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Kidd, John G. (John Graydon), 1908-

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John Kidd was a Philadelphia merchant and shipper. From the description of Letterbook, 1749-1763. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122316666 ...

Jassinoff, Gwen.

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Shrodes, Caroline.

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Mammoth storage warehouse, inc.

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House of Beric, Ltd.

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Th. Voelcker

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Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

Dandy, Walter Edward, 1886-1946

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Mills Novelty Company

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NYT Nordisk Forlag.

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A. S. Frere-Reeves

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H D. Swiggett

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Claude Simpson

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Henri J. Marshall

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William Heinemann, Ltd.

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Steiniger-Verlage

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William Harlow Briggs

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Humanitas verlag.

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Klaus Lambrecht

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Elly? Bernstein

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Malcolm Cowley

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Adams, H. Jack.

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G S. Lobrano

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William J. Ticknor

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Joseph, Rudolph.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

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Schuring, William J.

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Robert Raynolds

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Helen K. Landon

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Blake, Boyd M.

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Arnold Gingrich

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Kytle, Juanita Smith.

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Low, W. Gilman.

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Simpson, Claude M. (Claude Mitchell), 1910-1976

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Pritchard & James

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Boyd, Mrs. Madeleine (Reynier).

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Schoonover, Annamae.

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Town and country.

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Green, Paul, 1894-

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Union national bank

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Gardner, Paul Alexander.

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Hull, Henry

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Munn, James B.

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New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Ray Conway

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Duffy, Brian F.

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Kidd, John G. (John Graydon), 1908-

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John Kidd was a Philadelphia merchant and shipper. From the description of Letterbook, 1749-1763. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122316666 ...

Steenske Forlag

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Gwen Jassinoff

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Paul Green

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Thornton Wilder

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James Stokely's

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Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Richard Mealand

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Erdos, Paul L.

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Hotel Times Square

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Ann Almo

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John Edwards Aker

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Bermann-Fischer

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David, Simone

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Swiggett, H D.

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National city bank

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Effie W. Gambrell

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Wisdom, William B., 1900-1977

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Wolfe was an American novelist. From the description of William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1909-1959. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80284498 From the guide to the William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1909-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Lum, Tamblyn & Fairlie.

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Max Reinhardt

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Mealand, Richard

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Maurice J. Teitelbaum

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Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Aswell, Edward C. (Edward Campbell), 1900-1958

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Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1900. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he joined the staff of the "Forum," and, in 1930, became assistant editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." In 1935, Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books, later becoming editor-in-chief. While assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe to sign with Harper & Brothers. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States during which he acq...

Volkening, Henry, d. 1972

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Cass Canfield

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Pritchard, George M.

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Edward C. Gambrell

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Lawrence, Lee

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William Fadiman

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Raynolds, Robert, 1902-

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Jansen, William Hugh

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Fry, Maurice.

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Mademoiselle (Magazine)

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Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications. Mademoiselle, primarily a fashion magazine, was also known for publishing short stories by noted authors such as Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Jane Smiley, Mary Gordon, Paul Theroux, Sue Miller, Barbara Kingsolver, Perri Klass, Mona Simpson, Alice Munro,...

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

Lewis-Hassan productions.

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Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964

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Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University.. From the description of William A. Jackson diplomas and certificates, 1927-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 663976597 Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard. From the description of William A. Jackson letters to Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldC...

Weiss, Paul, 1901-2002

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Philosopher. From the description of Papers, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79049198 Paul Weiss, one of America's foremost philosophers, a noted modern metaphysician and a distinguished teacher is the author of a number of a books and articles in various fields of philosophy including ontology, epistemology, cosmology, and logic. Aside from the philosophical issues, he also wrote on public life, poetry, painting, hockey, history and humor. Paul Weiss was a founding memb...

Look Homeward Angel

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National city bank of New York

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Citizens' savings bank

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Sommer, Elizabeth.

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Teitelbaum, Maurice J.

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United States. Copyright office.

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Edward Perkins

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Landau, Sylvia

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Ostroumona, Tatiana.

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Gösta Dahl

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David W. Gambrell

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Caroline Shrodes

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Alvina Krause

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Edward Aswell

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Rowohlt (Firm)

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Martha S. Rogers

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Warren Bower.

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Whitney Darrow

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Charles M. Morton

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Vrest Orton

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Spivak, Lawrence E.

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Charlie Evans.

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Grosset & Dunlap.

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Editions Jean Marguerat

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Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth, 1860-1945

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Perkins, Edward N.

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Aker, John Edwards.

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Muller, Herbert Joseph, 1905-....

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Corporal, German army. From the description of Herbert Müller correspondence, 1941-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379368 Biographical/Historical Note Corporal, German army. From the guide to the Herbert Müller correspondence, 1941-1945, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

olfe

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Manoël Faucher

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Henry Volkening

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Maurice Fry

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Gilman Low.

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H. Jack Adams

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George L. Schein.

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Citizens' union national bank

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Chase national bank

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Belle Martin.

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Samuel Seldon.

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Elisabeth Frank

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Tonnac-Villeneuve.

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Paul Alexander Gardner

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Este productions, inc.

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U.S. Works progress administration

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Burgess, Ernest M.

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Frank C. Wolfe

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James Stokely

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RKO Radio Pictures

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RKO can be traced to a Milwaukee nickelodeon (1909); after a series of mergers it became the nucleus of Mutual Film Corp.; in 1928, it emerged as Radio-Keith-Orpheum and was involved in production, distribution, and exhibition; the studio employed many of the top creative talents of the 1930s and 40s and was responsible for film classics such as Citizen Kane, Bringing up baby, Suspicion, Gay divorcee, and The magnificent Ambersons; additionally RKO was the distributor of many of Samuel Goldwyn, ...

Societe d'editions & de publicite generales.

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Landon, Helen K.

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Aswell, Edward C. (Edward Campbell), 1900-1958

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Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1900. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he joined the staff of the "Forum," and, in 1930, became assistant editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." In 1935, Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books, later becoming editor-in-chief. While assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe to sign with Harper & Brothers. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States during which he acq...

Don Wharton

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Rathbone, G. P.

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M. Mindess

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Simone David

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Dietz Wolfe

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Sylvia Landau

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Munn, James Bull.

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Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Reimar Hobbing-Dom-Verlag

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Wolfe, Frederick William, 1894-

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Madeleine (Reynier) Boyd

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