Kenneth Roberts collection, 1919-1972.

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Kenneth Roberts collection, 1919-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32296208

Contains correspondence, articles, newspapers, and other information regarding water dowsing, one of Roberts's major interests later in life. Also contains a typescript copy of Boon Island, copies of Roberts's work in the Saturday Evening Post, a letter Booth Tarkington wrote to Margaret Deland about Roberts, and other biographical information.

1 box (0.33 cubic ft.).

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7339276

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957

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Novelist. From the description of Papers of Kenneth Lewis Roberts, 1919-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063732 American author specializing in the writing of richly detailed historical fiction. From the description of Papers of Kenneth Roberts, 1911-1947. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136005 American novelist, born Kennebunk, Maine, 1887. Staff correspondent for the Saturday evening post, 1919-; author of many historical novels ...

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945

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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073 Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life i...

Dean, John, 1679-1761

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