TLS [7], 1965 June 7-September 11, Washington, D.C., to Vida Ann Vliet.

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TLS [7], 1965 June 7-September 11, Washington, D.C., to Vida Ann Vliet.

Six of these letters are written by Porter to Mrs. Vliet, who was researching Porter for her doctoral thesis on the life and work of American women writers. The last of the seven letters present is written by Robert Penn Warren [1/2 p. TLS, 1965 August 18, West Wardsboro, Vermont], to Mrs. Vliet, regarding the latter's permission to see a file of correspondence between Warren and Porter at Yale.

8 p. ; 28 x 22 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6936390

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Vliet, Vida Ann.

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