Letter to Dayton Kohler 1950 Jan. 10.

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Letter to Dayton Kohler 1950 Jan. 10.

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Faulkner thanks Kohler for a piece from "College English" and agrees with it regarding "Faulkner's aim" and commenting "a man really writes simply because he likes to; it is his cup of tea." He continues with the difficulty of writing but "if you just keep on tryijg [sic] long enough and hard enough, it will emerge ... In a postcript he notes "Am proud to have belonged to RAF even obscurely ... no combat service nor wound."

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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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Kohler, Dayton, 1907-1972

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Dayton McCue Kohler, son of Edwin and Bertha Kohler, was born in Pennsylvania on September 24, 1906. The 1910 and 1920 censuses list the family living in Wormleysburg (Cumberland County), Pennsylvania. The younger Kohler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in 1928 and obtained his master's degree at the University of Virginia in 1929. That same year, Kohler was hired by Virginia Tech as an instructor of English. By 1932, Kohler had been promoted to assistant professor. The...