Joseph Hergesheimer letter, 1930 January 23.

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Joseph Hergesheimer letter, 1930 January 23.

The letter in this collection, dated January 23, 1930, was written to Pierre Bosman in Johannesburg, South Africa, and includes the original envelope postmarked January 27, 1930. Writing from The Dower House in Westchester, Pennsylvania, Hergesheimer says, "...The Party Dress has been cut down in the Cosmopolitan. That changes the proportions. It has, as well, been a little cooled off...It will be published April 4 this year and I'll send you a copy. The Limestone Tree is almost another year off as a book." The Party Dress was published in 1930, and The Limestone Tree was published in 1931.

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Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954

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Born February 15, 1880 in Philadelphia, Joseph Hergesheimer was the son of Joseph and Helen MacKellar Hergesheimer. He grew up in a stable, middle-class, suburban family. His father, a cartographer, worked for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Hergesheimer traveled to Europe on money inherited from his grandfather, studying and painting in Florence and Venice. By 1907, when he returned to the United States and married Dorothy He...

Bosman, Pierre

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