Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1927 and 1963]

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Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1927 and 1963]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191731440

Correspondence ranges from several items from Kenyon's youth to the bulk of the collection, in his adult years. As Kenyon and his father usually lived near one another, the correspondence is mostly limited to vacations and periods when Van Wyck was abroad.

27 items (42 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Brooks, Oliver Kenyon, 1916-,

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Kenyon Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck Brooks and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, brother of Charles Van Wyck Brooks. He graduated from the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut in 1933, at which time he entered Harvard, the school that both his brother Charles and father Van Wyck had attended. Kenyon had no particular career for some time afterwards, though he painted a little. In 1942 he became a midshipman in the naval reserves, and then, after living with his father for some time, ent...