Correspondence, with R. W. Cowden, 1938-1942.

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Correspondence, with R. W. Cowden, 1938-1942.

The 1938 letters concern refugees from facist Italy in Switzerland, including Ignzaio Silone, and Paolo Milano, with a request for aid for the latter. The remainder concern her writing.

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Milano, Paolo

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Silone, Ignazio, 1900-1978

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Pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli; born in Pescina dei Marsi, Italy 1900, died in Geneva 1978; writer; secretary of the Abruzzi farm labourers' union in 1917; convicted for organizing antiwar demonstrations; joined the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) in 1918; leader in the Federazione Italiana Giovanile Socialista; editor of the Avanguardia Socialista; member of the Executive of the Communist Youth International; joined the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) in Livorno in 1921; PCI delegate at the...

Cowden, Roy William.

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Roy W. Cowden was born in 1883 at Fredonia, N.Y. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1908 and a master's degree from Harvard University in 1909. He joined the U-M faculty in 1909 as an instructor in English, and was advanced to the rank of full professor in 1935. He was best known as director of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program in Creative Writing at the U-M, a post he held from 1934 until the time of his retirement in 1952. He died September 1961. ...

Mitcoff, Elena

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