Typed letter signed : [New York], to Alexander Woolcott, 1942 Dec. 5.

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Typed letter signed : [New York], to Alexander Woolcott, 1942 Dec. 5.

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Concerning an anthology for American troops abroad during World War II, discussing the literary taste of nineteen-year-olds, praising Sarah Orne Jewett but admitting that her work probably does not belong in a soldiers' anthology, suggesting some American poetry, proposing that instead of an anthology Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" be reprinted, and discussing her own "Saphira."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Ripley, James T., Mrs,

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