Business correspondence [manuscripts] / Benjamin A. Botkin.

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Business correspondence [manuscripts] / Benjamin A. Botkin.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227211348

Includes letters written to his professional colleagues, publishers, artists, singers and songwriters, and authors associated with folklore, folk literature and professional folklore organizations. There are also letter between Botkin and others within the fields of literature, history, music, and publishing. Among the notable correspondents are Ira Gershwin, Mari Sandoz, Woody Guthrie, Louis L'Amour, Katherine Ann Porter, Norman Rockwell, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Francis Lee Utley, and Robert Penn Warren. These letters illustrate both a professional interest and their friendship.

32 boxes (13 linear ft.)

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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SNAC Resource ID: 7082738

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975

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Benjamin A. Botkin was born in 1901 in Boston, Mass. He began Harvard at age 15, graduating magna cum laude at 19, and earned a MA in English literature from Columbia. He then taught english at the University of Oklahoma before studying with folklore scholar Louise Pound at the University of Nebraska where he received a Ph.D. in 1931. In 1937, Botkin accepted a position as the national folklore editor for the Federal Writers' Project. He also served as the co-founder and chairman of the WPA Join...