Letter to Mary Meek Atkeson : Los Gatos, Calif. : LS, 1923 Jan. 18.

Atkeson, Mary Meek

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Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, 1882-1954

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Ruth Comfort Mitchell was born on July 21, 1882 in San Francisco. She spent a good deal of time in Los Gatos, California, where her parents owned a summer home. It was here that her first poem was published in the local newspaper, when she was 14 years old. After she married Sanborn Young in 1914, the couple moved to New York City. Within two years, she had a play opening on Broadway and a published volume of poems, to be followed soon after by her first novel. The Youngs soon returned to Los Ga...