Letters, 1968 August 29 - December 11.

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Letters, 1968 August 29 - December 11.

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Four typewritten letters (August 29, September 28, October 16, and December 11) written by Louis B. Mainey, Ocala, Florida, to Dorothy Gimmestad, Minnesota Historical Society, providing information on Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis and his family background in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Both Mainey and his wife, Ethel Winslow Mainey, were neighbors of the Lewis family during their childhoods and in 1952-1953. Lewis often wrote in the office of Orlando Winslow, Mrs. Mainey's father.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Winslow, Orlando.

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Lewis family.

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George F. Lewis was born in Harvard, Massachusetts in 1828. He moved to Mt. Clemens, Michigan in 1835. In 1845 he became acquainted with Horace Greeley, and in July of 1848 he took a position on the Daily Commercial Bulletin, which was starting in Detroit. He helped to put in type the first news of a presidential election ever received by telegraph. He helped to found the Saginaw Daily Courier in 1868 and started the Mt. Pleasant Journal in 1880 and the Daily Call in Bay City in 1881. He continu...

Gimmestad, Dorothy.

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Mainey, Louis B.

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Mainey, Ethel Winslow.

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