Philip Quincy Loring papers, 1913-1944 [manuscript].

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Philip Quincy Loring papers, 1913-1944 [manuscript].

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Letters from Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) to Philip Q. Loring of Portland, Me. Written mainly from Tarkington's summer home, Seawood, at Kennebunkport, Me., the letters chiefly concern insurance coverage provided by Loring's firm on oil paintings owned by Tarkington, but also include biting criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and the social programs of the New Deal.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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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...