ALS, 1935 March 12 : Indianapolis, [Indiana], to Arthur Zinken.

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ALS, 1935 March 12 : Indianapolis, [Indiana], to Arthur Zinken.

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Tarkington writes: " ... Charles Dickens was the literary life blood of the youths of my generation whose families were at all bookish ... Three books about Dickens have been published within this last year ... More have been printed about Hitler, I suppose; but they aren't what's called 'good reading'"

1 p. ; 27 x 18.5 cm. (and envelope)

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Zinken, Arthur.

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