Autograph letters signed (48) and telegram : Seattle, Los Angeles, Victoria (British Columbia), Florence, New York, Windsor (Vermont), West Brooksville (Maine), Totnes (Devon), to Edward Wagenknecht, 1933-1973 and [n.d.].

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Autograph letters signed (48) and telegram : Seattle, Los Angeles, Victoria (British Columbia), Florence, New York, Windsor (Vermont), West Brooksville (Maine), Totnes (Devon), to Edward Wagenknecht, 1933-1973 and [n.d.].

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Discussing productions of Iphigenia (1934) and Eastward in Eden (1947), which she directed; declining to write a memoir about the Chicago Little Theater; mentioning the actresses Beatrice Straight, Margaret Rawlings, and Dorothy Tutin; thanking him for sending various books; commenting on his work on Longfellow; saying she found Claire Bloom "vocally monotonous and not yet of genuine tragic stature" in Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1954); reporting Nellie C. Cornish's death and asking him to rework her autobiographical account of the Cornish School; explaining why she moved from the Barbizon Plaza to the Hotel Laurelton (later the Laurelton-Wellington Hotel); complimenting Michael Whitney Straight's novel Carrington (1960); remembering hearing Paul Robeson in Othello; thanking him for dedicating his book on Chicago to her; noting that she is sorting her papers and Maurice Browne's for the theater collection at the University of Michigan; regretting Geraldine Farrar's death; appreciating his Merely Players (1966); regretting Nixon's election in 1968; reporting Dorothy Elmhirst's death. Many signed "Nellie Van."

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Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight, 1887-1968

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Dorothy Payne Whitney, daughter of William C. Whitney, a financier and Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland, married Willard Dickerman Straight in 19ll. Straight died in 1918, and she married Leonard Knight Elmhirst in 1925. Dorothy and Elmhirst purchased Dartington Hall, Devon, England, reconstructed the 14th century manor and founded a school on the property. Dartington Hall became a center for the arts and a leading coeducational progressive school. The New School for Social...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Pierpont Morgan Library. Wagenknecht Collection.

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Tutin, Dorothy

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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...

Bloom, Claire

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Straight, Beatrice

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Actress. From the guide to the Beatrice Straight papers, [ca. 1925]-1990., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Actress. Beatrice Straight, daughter of Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Whitney Straight, was born August 2, 1914 in Old Westbury, N. Y. Some time after her father's death in 1918, her mother married Leonard Elmhirst and moved to England where Beatrice attended a progressive school in Devon called Dartington Hall. She per...

Farrar, Geraldine

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American soprano. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [n.p.], 1961, to [Joseph Chouinard?], 1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270913139 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Ridgefield, Conn., 31 January 1934 and New York [n.d., 1934], to H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1934 Jan. 31 and [n.d. 1934]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270576719 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Ridgefield, Conn., 28 August ...

Van Volkenburg Browne, Ellen, b. 1882.

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American actress and producer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (48) and telegram : Seattle, Los Angeles, Victoria (British Columbia), Florence, New York, Windsor (Vermont), West Brooksville (Maine), Totnes (Devon), to Edward Wagenknecht, 1933-1973 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867539 ...

Rawlings, Margaret

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