Autograph and typed letters signed (10) : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1933-1965.

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Autograph and typed letters signed (10) : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1933-1965.

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Offering several anecdotes about Mark Twain, who lived two doors down from Mabbott on Fifth Avenue; agreeing to read his manuscript on Edgar Allan Poe and to comment on the facts only; saying that he considers the "coop story" of Poe's last days "a pure canard," that he believes Poe was not a habitual drug user, and that a raven is "supposed to embody the soul of about the most romantic king there ever was"; discussing Mary Rogers; and sending comments on Wagenknecht's Longfellow : a full-length portrait (1955).

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Pierpont Morgan Library. Wagenknecht Collection.

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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...