Letters to Stetson Kennedy, 1940-1942, 1958, 1978.

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Letters to Stetson Kennedy, 1940-1942, 1958, 1978.

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The collection consists of letters from Erskine Caldwell to Stetson Kennedy from 1940-1942, 1958, and 1978. The majority of the letters pertain to Kennedy's book, PALMETTO COUNTRY, part of the "American Folkways" series edited by Caldwell.

24 items.

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403423

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Kennedy, Stetson

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...