Wheels : biographical sketch of John Brooks Wheelwright, 1966.

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Wheels : biographical sketch of John Brooks Wheelwright, 1966.

TMsS copy of material omitted from her "Gentle Americans" (1965), annotated by Louise Wheelwright Damon (Mrs. S. Foster). Also included are a TLS and an ALS from the author (signed Helen Howe Allen) to Mrs. Damon and an ANS from the latter to the library.

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Damon, Louise Wheelwright, 1889-1973,

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Artist. Wife of S. Foster Damon (poet, dramatist, Blake scholar, professor of English at Brown University, Curator of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at the John Hay Library, Brown University) and sister of John Brooks Wheelwright (poet, essayist, and social critic). From the description of Shadow show of silhouette puppets and props, [ca. 1950-1970]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122615728 ...

Howe, Helen, 1905-1975

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Wheelwright, John, 1897-1940

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John Wheelwright was a New England poet. Born in Boston to an old and aristocratic family, he studied architecture at Harvard University and later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but never finished a degree. After expulsion from Harvard, he became a member of the lost generation, and embraced socialism. He published three books of verse, each complex and cautiously admired by his peers, each owing much to his Boston Brahmin heritage. He was struck and killed by a drunk driver before h...