Papers, 1898-1932.

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Papers, 1898-1932.

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Tarkington's diaries for 1898, 1913, 1925, 1929, 1931, and 1932, and one folder of correspondence. The 1898 diary was written while she was married to Temple A. Robinson and details a trip to the Caribbean. The 1913 diary contains entries about the flood that struck Indianapolis. The 1925 diary describes travel in Africa and Europe. The 1929, 1931, and 1932 diaries deal mainly with visits to Johns Hopkins for a series of operations on her husband's eyes.

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Tarkington, Susanah, 1870-1966

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Susanah Kiefer was a native of Dayton, Ohio. In 1912, she married Indianapolis author Booth Tarkington. She managed the Tarkington households in Indianapolis, Ind. and Kennebunkport, Me. From the description of Papers, 1898-1932. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 35553069 ...

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...