Newton Arvin correspondence, 1920-1963.

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Newton Arvin correspondence, 1920-1963.

The correspondence to Arvin includes letters from Van Wyck Brooks, William Burford, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, Merle Curti, Robert G. Davis, Howard Doughty, Leonard Ehrlich, Helen Eustis, Tom Hovey, Irving Howe, Frederick Jones III, Murray Krieger, Louis Kronenberger, Seymour Lawrence, Richard Lewis, David Lilienthal, Robert L. Lowe, Tom Mabry, Carson McCullers, William Maxwell, Fulmer Mood, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ranson, Delmore Schwartz, Oskar Seidlin, Hal Swayze, Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren, Glenway Wescott, Edmund Wilson and Morton D. Zabel among others. There is correspondence from Smith College faculty members Daniel Aaron, Mary Ellen Chase, Elizabeth Drew, Alfred Young Fisher, Wendell Johnson, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Eleanor M. Metcalf, Francis Murphy, Ned Spofford and others. Also included are Arvin's letters to Truman Capote, Leonard Ehrlich, Alfred Kazin and Fulmer Mood. The collection also has Arvin's typescript (carbon) with corrections of his biography on Longfellow.

4 linear ft. (16 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7666988

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Ehrlich, Leonard, 1905-

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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American author. From the guide to the Truman Capote ephemera Collection, 1949-1988., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Truman Capote (1924- ), American author. From the description of Truman Capote papers, 1939-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476609 Truman Capote is an American writer. From the description of Truman Capote fonds. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667848368...

Eustis, Helen.

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Cheever, John

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Metcalf, Eleanor Melville, 1882-1964

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963

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Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966

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Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973

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Fisher Alfred Young, 1905-

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