Correspondence : to Van Wyck Brooks, 1952-1962.

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Correspondence : to Van Wyck Brooks, 1952-1962.

Correspondence primarily relates to Marshall's work with J. Frank Stimson (Brooks's brother-in-law), and the publication of Stimson's work. Also contains reports on the collaborative work of Marshall and Stimson in Polynesian linguistics and ethnology.

73 items (191 leaves)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6940001

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Stimson, J.F. (John Francis), 1883-1958

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Frank Stimson was Eleanor Stimson Brooks's brother (and thus Van Wyck Brooks's brother-in-law). Though he studied to become an architect, he ended up in Tahiti doing Polynesian linguistic work. His removed presence and taking of a Polynesian common law wife, Kotirau, estranged him from his three children (Cookie, Francis and Odette), though he kept in contact with his sister and the Brooks family. From the description of Correspondence to Eleanor Stimson Brooks, 1937. (University of ...

Marshall, Donald Stanley, 1919-2005

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