Letters to Jamie Cockfield

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Letters to Jamie Cockfield

1970-1982

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u3953537

Childs writes regarding his current activities, particularly his work on Casanova, and sends career advise to Cockfield, the University of Virginia graduate student assigned to process Childs' papers. A final letter is from Hilda Noel Schroetter, Childs' secretary and companion. With these is a Christmas card to Cockfield briefly discussing Childs' "Brave music of a distant drum" and a review by Virginius Dabney of "Let the credit go." There also letters from Hilda Schroetter and C. W. Gibson concerning Childs.

ca. 37 items

eng, Latn

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Childs, J. Rives (James Rives), 1893-1987

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James Rives Childs was born February 6, 1893 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended the Virginia Military Institute before graduating from Randolph-Macon College in 1912, then earned a master of arts from Harvard University in 1915. He served the United States Army during World War I as a cryptoanalyst and radio intelligence liaison in France. After the war he joined the American Relief Administration in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1923 he joined the United States Foreign Service, e...

Schroetter, Hilda Noel

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Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798

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Cockfield, Jamie H.

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