Typed letters signed (2) : Serena, Carpinteria, California, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1940 Jan. 28 and Feb. 6.

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Typed letters signed (2) : Serena, Carpinteria, California, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1940 Jan. 28 and Feb. 6.

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Confirming that she did not send a Robert Louis Stevenson story called "The Witch Woman" or "The Waif Woman" to Scribner's; complaining about published portrayals of Stevenson's last years, saying that he was not "financially embarrassed," and comparing her experience reading one recent account to "watching a drunken man trying to walk a chalk line. The author had his incidents right, but his interpretation--he wavered and slipped and slid, and never hit the truth once"; and hoping that Wagenknecht's work-in-progress will not be a psychoanalysis of Stevenson.

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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...

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Field, Isobel, 1858-1953

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