E. E. Cummings letter to William James, III [manuscript], 1940 [sic] June 8.

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E. E. Cummings letter to William James, III [manuscript], 1940 [sic] June 8.

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Cummings writes an idiomatic letter to James, describing the stonemasons who repaired his chimney, enquiring after James' parents, and remarking on the weather.

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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

James, William, 1882-

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Portrait painter, instructor; Cambridge, Mass. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of psychologist William James (1842-1910), brother of portrait painter Alexander Robertson James, and nephew of novelist Henry James. Pupil of Benson and Tarbell and teacher at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1913-1926. From the description of William James papers, 1883-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80588584 ...

James, William, III.,

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