Guest book of Julia and James Southall Wilson, 1922-1937.

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Guest book of Julia and James Southall Wilson, 1922-1937.

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The guest book contains quotations entered by several well known writers who visited the Wilsons including Carl Sandburg, Mary Sinton Leitch, DuBose Heyward, Robert Frost, and "A.E." (George William Russell). Among the additional authors, friends and family members who signed the book or left quotations are Margaret Emerson Bailey, Kate Langley Bosher, George Preston Coleman, W.E. Dold, Thomas FitzHugh, Lawrence Lee, Jean West Maury, Magruder Morgan Maury, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julester Shrady Post, Henry St. George Tucker, and Louise Collier Willcox. There are also bars of music by Alfred Swan and Francis H. Abbot, a sketch of Pavilion V, University of Virginia, by Fiske Kimball, and Marie Kimball's "mark."

1 v. ; 20 x 12.5 cm.

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