Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Three Hills, Warm Springs, Virginia, and Charlottesville, Virginia, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946-1959.

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Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Three Hills, Warm Springs, Virginia, and Charlottesville, Virginia, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946-1959.

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Agreeing to Edward Wagenknecht's request to use her sister Mary Johnston's "Added Space" in a collection of ghost stories; praising his article ["The World and Mary Johnston"] in the Sewannee Review[April-June 1936] as "the most understanding appreciation she [Mary] ever had of her mystic experience and interest"; saying she has done little with Mary's diaries; thanking him for dedicating his book Cavalcade of the American Novelto Mary; saying she has given Mary's literary papers to the University of Virginia; discussing her own biography of Mary, thanking Wagenknecht for agreeing to read it, wondering why it has been rejected by so many publishers when biographies of other women writing at the same time (Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow) have been published recently; concerning Wagenknecht's plan to write the biography himself; and noting why Mary left Houghton Mifflin. With a letter from Carl Brandt, of Brandt and Brandt, Mary Johnston's literary executors, giving Elizabeth's Johnston's address.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Johnston, Elizabeth Dowers.

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Sister of American author Mary Johnston. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Three Hills, Warm Springs, Virginia, and Charlottesville, Virginia, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864388 ...

Pierpont Morgan Library. Wagenknecht Collection.

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Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-2004

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Professor of English; author; book reviewer. Born Mar. 28, 1900, in Chicago. Graduated from University of Chicago, 1923, M.A. 1924. Ph. D., University of Washington (Seattle), 1932. Teaching: University of Chicago, 1923-1925 (assistant); University of Washington, Seattle, 1925-1943 (associate, assistant professor, associate professor); Illinois Institute of Technology, 1943-1947 (associate professor); Boston University, 1947-1965 (professor). Literary editor of Seattle Post-Intellig...

Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936

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Mary Johnston was born November 21, 1870 in Buchanan, Virginia to Elizabeth Alexander Johnston from Moorefield, West Virginia and John W. Johnston, lawyer and railway executive, of Botetourt County, Virginia. Mary Johnston, the oldest of six children, was followed by Eloise Johnston, Anne Johnston, John Johnston, Walter Johnston, and Elizabeth Johnston; the first and last two siblings lived most of their adult lives with Mary Johnston until her death, and they are mentioned frequently in these p...