Letters, 1919-1920, to Katherine Becker.

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Letters, 1919-1920, to Katherine Becker.

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Primarily letters to De Voto's friend, Katherine Becker. Some were written during the summer before they left their family homes in Ogden; most were written from Cambridge, after De Voto's return to Harvard and Becker's move to the Halstead School in New York. They reflect De Voto's intensity of expectations for his own writing development and give an in depth picture of formative years of his early twenties. Included are some sonnets written by De Voto for Becker (1919-1920) and a carbon of a letter from Arthur Perkins (Becker's later husband) to De Voto, together with De Voto's response, 1935. There is also a letter written by Katherine Becker Perkins to Wallace Stegner, 28 April 1979, describing her relationship with De Voto.

.5 linear ft. (115 items).

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955

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American educator, novelist, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass. ; White Plains, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1935-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863883 Betty White was one of De Voto's students at Northwestern in the 1920's. She was literary, and the best friend of Avis MacVicar, whom De Voto shortly married. As a senior at Northwestern, Betty Whi...

Perkins, Arthur

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Perkins, Katherine B.

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Becker, Katherine.

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