Typed letters signed (9) : Gainesville, Fl., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1966-1968.

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Typed letters signed (9) : Gainesville, Fl., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1966-1968.

Offering to let Wagenknecht examine the copies of John Greenleaf Whittier letters and manuscripts he has assembled, and discussing Whittier scholarship; complimenting his book Merely Players (1966); and expressing distress at the election of Nixon to the Presidency.

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Pierpont Morgan Library. Wagenknecht Collection.

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