Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1940.
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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 ...
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 ...
