Rita Kissin papers 1900-1981.

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Rita Kissin papers 1900-1981.

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Typescript for the children's book, Raffy and the honkebeest (1940) and galley for the novel, This precious dust (1948). Typescripts for unpublished books, plays, and short stories. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Kissin's involvement with: the Montessori method; American politics during the 1910's; the Actors' Fund of America, headed by Daniel Frohman; the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation; and a "Save the trees" campaign in Hollywood, led by Mary Pickford.

5.4 cu. ft.

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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