Booth Tarkington letter to Mr. Silberman, 1943 Sept. 4.

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Booth Tarkington letter to Mr. Silberman, 1943 Sept. 4.

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Tarkington writes to Mr. Silberman, 4 Sept. 1943, from Kennebunkport. The letter is primarily concerned with Tarkington's efforts to buy paintings, but includes some personal touches and commentary on the current conditions in Germany.

2 p.

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...