Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1942-1943.

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Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1942-1943.

Items date from Schmidt's time as an U.S. army private and quartermaster during World War II, both from when he was in training and from when he was in active service. One item concerns a humorous incident in which Schmidt was discussing Van Wyck Brooks with a soldier who was wholly convinced that the author was a bachelor.

6 items (17 leaves)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959059

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Schmidt, Heinz.

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Schmidt knew Charles and Inez Brooks in California. From the description of Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1942-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191800079 ...

Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.

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Charles Van Wyck Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, born in California in 1912. After attending Williston Academy in Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University. Charles spent his post-college years traveling, engaging in literary work for the Federal Writers Project and translating the private journals of Henri Frederic Amiel (published 1935). In 1936, he married young modernist painter Inez Helena Seibert, and the two lived in France for several years ...