Letter to Robert D. Clark, 1921 February 9.

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Letter to Robert D. Clark, 1921 February 9.

Refuses to cater to or seek the respect of business, political, and social leaders, whom he considers his mental inferiors. Comments on SInclair Lewis' Main Street and his own The Beautiful and Damned.

4 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7151089

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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