Typed letter signed : Los Angeles, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1959 Nov. 21.

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Typed letter signed : Los Angeles, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1959 Nov. 21.

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Thanking him for comments on his life of Barnum [The Fabulous Showman, 1959], mentioning Barnum's relationship with Jenny Lind, and listing his next projects: a novel [The Chapman report, 1960] which he calls "a rather new departure for me," and a biography [The Twenty-Seventh Wife, 1961] of Ann Eliza Webb Young, Brigham Young's last and twenty-seventh wife, who divorced him and became a crusader against polygamy.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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