Letters, 1936-1939.

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Letters, 1936-1939.

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Letters, 1936 Sept. 1 - 1939 Dec. 6, from Mitchell in Atlanta, Ga., to George B. Ward, in and former mayor of Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala., regarding the testimony Ward's mother gave in 1883 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital. Mitchell regarded the testimony "undoubtedly the most perfect . . . picture of a long gone day," and states that if she had seen the testimony earlier, she would not have needed to research so much for Gone With the Wind. There are also letters regarding copying the testimony, later entitled "War Memories", Mitchell's health, Michell's receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937, Mitchell sending "War Memories" to George Cukor, to aid him in guiding the direction of Gone With the Wind in 1937, especially in the relationship between slave and mistress, and other matters.

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Ward, Margaret Ketchum.

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Mitchell, Margaret, 1903-

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Mitchell was born 1900 Nov. 8 in Atlanta, Ga., to Eugene M. and Maybelle Mitchell. She graduated from Washington's Seminary in 1918, and on 1922 Sept. 19, married Berrin K. Upshaw, from whom she was divorced two years later. She then married John Robert Marsh in 1925. In 1926, after a severe ankle injury forced her to quit writing for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, she began her novel, which was substantially finished by 1929. It was published as Gone With the Wind in 1936, which received ...

Cukor, George, 1899-1983.

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Film director. From the description of Reminiscences of George Dewey Cukor : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569616 Cukor was born and raised in New York City and became a director of stage and screen, working primarily at MGM. He died in 1983. From the description of George Cukor Christmas card : print, 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872715 ...

Ward, George B. (George Battey).

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United States. Senate. Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital.

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