[Letters to Miss Anna Phelps] / Edith Wharton. 1902.

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[Letters to Miss Anna Phelps] / Edith Wharton. 1902.

The 12 letters of Edith Wharton to Miss Anna Phelps between Aug. 3rd and Dec. 30th concern Wharton's negotiations with Phelps to assist in cataloging her library in Lenox.Ten of the letters are written from Lenox; the other two are from Newport, R. I. (Aug. 25th) and New York City (Dec. 30).

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Phelps, Anna,

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