Autograph and typed letters signed (8) : Peterborough, New Hampshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1952-1974 and [n.d.].

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Autograph and typed letters signed (8) : Peterborough, New Hampshire, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1952-1974 and [n.d.].

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Hoping to see him at a Friends meeting in Cambridge, thanking him for suggesting that she do a story on Prudence Crandall, who "worked so hard to educate girls of all colors and races together"; thanking him for his reviews of her books, including Brave Interval (1952) and The Carey Girl (1956); congratulating him on his book Ralph Waldo Emerson: Portrait of a Balanced Soul (1974) and recalling Emerson's influence on her as a teenager; and hoping he can come visit with her and Elizabeth Gray Vining (b. 1902), who is working on a book on John Greenleaf Whittier [Mr. Whittier, 1974].

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