Correspondence. 1898-1965.

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Correspondence. 1898-1965.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18110220

Correspondents include Jesse Stuart, Harriet Arnow Simpson and Irvin S. Cobb.

36 linear ft. (30 boxes)

Eastern Kentucky University, Crabbe Library

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Eastern Kentucky University, Crabbe Library

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Townsend, John Wilson, 1885-1968

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Biographical note: John Wilson Townsend, a native of Fayette County, Kentucky, was a graduate of Transylvania University and the author of "Kentucky in American Literature" (1915) and numerous other works on Kentucky history. He was employed variously as a teacher, librarian, and editor, but known chiefly as a bookseller and collector of first editions, having operated the Graceland Book Shop and the Blue Grass Book Shop in Lexington. During his lifetime sizable collections of books assembled by...