Stephen Vincent Benet letters, 1934-1941.

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Stephen Vincent Benet letters, 1934-1941.

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The collection consists of five letters written by Benet to Florence Locke and Eleanor Adlard dealing with proposed dramatic readings from "John Brown's Body" and commentaries by Benet about them. Miss Locke had asked that Benet prepare a short synopis of the Civil War for English audiences. The synopsis, a five-page typescript with minor correction, is included with the letter 24 September 1934. The letters in the collection are: 1.) 7 September 1934, A.l.s. to Florence Locke ; 2.) 24 September 1934, T.l.s. and synopsis to Florence Locke ; 3.) 12 January 1935, T.l.s. to Eleanor Adlard ; 4.) 1 May 1935, T.l.s. to Eleanor Adlard ; 5.) 18 July 1941, T.l.s. to Florence Locke.

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Adlard, Eleanor

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Locke, Florence

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Miss Locke was an actress, widely known in the United States and England in the 1930s, who had studied under Adrian Brunel and Yvette Guilbert. She gave numerous dramatic recitals of works by Shakespeare, Stephen Vincent Benét, Amy Lowell and others in small theaters, clubs and drawing rooms. She had the exclusive right, through Edith Craig, to present Ellen Terry's lectures on Shakespeare. She gave two recitals at the Folger Shakespeare Library and corresponded with Mrs. Folger, her nephew, E....

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943

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Stephen Vincent Beńet was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Beńet's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also becmae writers. Beńet attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated fro...