John Brooks Wheelwright : anniversary eulogy, 1950, Sept. 16, Boston.

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John Brooks Wheelwright : anniversary eulogy, 1950, Sept. 16, Boston.

Manuscripts, typed draft, and a final typescript of opening of memorial broadcast.

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Blake, Howard Carson, 1904-

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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...