[Letter] 1953 Christmas, Northampton, Mass. [to] Marion [Dodd] and Esther [C. Dunn] / Edgar and Margaret [Wind]

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[Letter] 1953 Christmas, Northampton, Mass. [to] Marion [Dodd] and Esther [C. Dunn] / Edgar and Margaret [Wind]

Edgar Wind writes to Dodd and Dunn concerning the book he is enclosing as a gift: Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Q. Cvrtii Rvfi Historiarum libri. Lvgd. Batavorvm : ex officia Elzeviriana, 1633.

[3] p. ; 22 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7602523

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Dunn, Esther Cloudman, 1891-....

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Born in 1891, Esther Cloudman Dunn was raised in Portland, Maine. Attending Cornell University, Dunn graduated in 1913, and became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in literature from the University of London. Prior to her tenure at Smith College, Dunn taught at Reading High School and Bryn Mawr College. Known for her research, Dunn explored Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, the Elizabethan Age, and romanticism. Dunn taught at Smith from 1922-1959, eventually becoming chairman of the college's E...

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Marion Elza Dodd was born in 1883 in Glen Ridge, NJ, to Charles T. and Rebecca Northall Dodd. Her grandfather, Moses Dodd, was the founder of Dodd, Mead Publishing Co., and many uncles and cousins were also book collectors, editors, and publishers. She received a B.A. from Smith College in 1906 and attended Columbia University Library School from 1908-1909. Dodd then co-founded the Hampshire Bookshop (the predecessor to the Grecourt Bookstore) with Mary Byers (Smith '08) on April 7, 1916. She al...

Wind, Edgar, 1900-1971

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Edgar Wind was a German-born art historian, who specialized in Renaissance iconography. He was involved with the Warburg Institute. He taught at various institutions in the U.S., including Smith College (1944-55), as well as at Oxford University (1955-1967). Marion Dodd, Smith College class of 1906, was a co-founder of the Hampshire Bookshop in Northampton. Esther Cloudman Dunn was a professor at Smith College. From the description of [Letter] 1953 Christmas, Northampton, Mass. [to] ...