Papers of John Dos Passos, 1918-2000.

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Papers of John Dos Passos, 1918-2000.

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The collection contains a manuscript poem by Dos Passos "Beer is free to soldiers," 1919 February 24. There are also letters to Dawn Powell, 1937-1965; copies of postcards to Mr. and Mrs. Terry Farnsworth and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor; some Dos Passos family letters; and some miscellaneous postcards originally inserted in "Memoires de Philippde de Commynes." The collection also contains a modern copy of an 1812 baptismal certificate in Portuguese; World War I aerial photographs; a brochure for the Browne Art Class Season of 1940; a marriage certificate for John Dos Passos and Katherine Smith, 1929; "The Marriage Service" for John Dos Passos and Elizabeth Holdridge, 1949; clippings; and printed material regarding Dos Passos including programs for productions of "U.S.A." reviews of "U.S.A." Finally the collection contains a copy of "Days near Rome" by Augustus J.C. Hare with pressed plants between its pages.

200 (ca.) items.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Commynes, Philippe de, approximately 1447-1511

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Dos Passos, Katherine, d. 1947.

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Farnsworth, Terry

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Powell, Dawn

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American novelist, short story writer and playwright. She was born in 1896 and died in 1965. From the description of Dawn Powell Papers, 1910-1998. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 265033382 ...

Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903

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Augustus J.C. Hare was born in Rome, privately educated before going to Oxford, and lived most of his life abroad before retiring to England. He wrote books about places, guidebooks to cities and important places in England and Italy, and a memoir, Memories of a quiet life (1872-76). He was a gifted artist who illustrated many of his own books, a book and picture collector, and a fashionable man-about-town. From the description of Augustus J.C. Hare letter to Mrs. Portal, 1896 June 1...

Gaylor, Adelaide Lawson,

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Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970

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American novelist. From the description of One Man's Initiation, 1917, 1968-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937079 American author, From the description of State of the nation [manuscript], 1944. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807708 American author. From the description of Screenplay by John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1934 October 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647830975 F...

Dos Passos, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Holdridge), 1909-1998

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