Stephen Vincent Benet Alumni Day poem, 1933.

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Stephen Vincent Benet Alumni Day poem, 1933.

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The collection consists of a poem of three typed pages signed and dated by Benet, delivered on Alumni Day, May 6, 1933, on the occasion of the presentation of a portrait of Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Benet (grandfather of the poet, University of Georgia alumnus, and Union general) to the University of Georgia. Also included in the collection are the original typescript and five variant typescripts, the newspaper printing of the poem, and the Atlanta Journal magazine article on General Benet from the issue of June 11, 1933.

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