Letters, manuscripts, and clippings to Jessie Gruner principally from Margery Latimer, Edward Harris Heth, Karl Priebe, Richard Eldridge, and Harry Beckman, M.D. 1924-1982.

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Letters, manuscripts, and clippings to Jessie Gruner principally from Margery Latimer, Edward Harris Heth, Karl Priebe, Richard Eldridge, and Harry Beckman, M.D. 1924-1982.

Folders 1-7, correspondence from Margery Latimer; 8, miscellaneous correspondence; 9, from Karl Priebe; 10, clippings on Latimer and J. Toomer; 11, typescript of Latimer's review of Look Homeward Angel; 11a, Scribner's magazine, June 1931, "Guardian Angel," p. 647-661; 12, typescript of Latimer's short story "Gisela;" 13, clippings about Zona Gale; 14, clippings and letters of E. Heth; 15, typescript of "Preface to winter;" 16, typescript of Section III, Ch. 5 of "Lives of Jean Toomer;" 17, typescript of Beckman's "Kalevala;" 18, anonymous holograph translation into English of the French translation by J.W. Bienstock of Ilʹf and Petrov's Twelve Chairs.

19 folders 1 box + 2 photographs

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Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932

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Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937.

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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967

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Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles ...

Gruner, Jessie.

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Kerman, Cynthia Earl

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Biographer of Kenneth E. Boulding. From the description of Cynthia Earl Kerman research files, 1927-1983. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81331774 Cynthia Earl Kerman is a historian and biographer. She has written biographies of Jean Toomer and Kenneth E. Boulding. She was a professor of English at Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland. From the guide to the Cynthia Earl Kerman research files, 1927-2011, 1927-1983, (Bentley Historical Library, ...

Heth, Edward Harris

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Eldridge, Richard, 1940-....

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Priebe, Karl J., 1914-1976

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Artist, of Milwaukee, Wis. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900]-1978, bulk 1940-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 30659333 ...

Beckman, Harry, 1892-

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Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

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Zona Gale was a prominent writer and political activist born in Portage, Wisconsin. Gale attended the University of Wisconsin and worked as a reporter in Milwaukee. Gale, a lifelong friend of Jane Addams, became involved in the fight for the women's vote and eventually went to work for the writer Edmund Clarence Stedman. Her novel, "Miss Lulu Bett" was successfully adapted for the theater. From the description of Correspondence, 1907-1929. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat reco...