Papers of Lawrance Thompson, 1892-1967.

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Papers of Lawrance Thompson, 1892-1967.

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The collection contains manuscripts and some photostats of several Frost poems; page proofs of "A further range"; correspondence; notes of conversations between Frost and Thompson and notes on Frost by Thompson; photographs of Frost; clippings; a few financial items; a Christmas card list; a history of the Frost family by William Prescott Frost, Jr.; an anonymous note on Carol Frost's death; invitations and programs and other miscellaneous items. The papers also contain a manuscript of "The virgin carrying a lantern" by Wallace Stevens. Correspondents include Earle Bernheimer, Louis Cohn, Bernard DeVoto, Tom Dunning, A.C. Edwards, Elinor Frost, Jean Frost, Charles R. Green, Henry Holt & Company, John F. Kennedy (recipient), Kathleen Morrison, Theodore Morrison, Harry Olesker, John E. Pomfret, Victor E. Reichert, Edgar R. Rigg, Wilbur Rowell, Herbert C. Schulz, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Wilbert Snow, Janet Thompson (recipient), and Herbert F. West.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Olesker, Harry

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Reichert, Victor Emanuel, 1897-

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Schulz, Herbert Clarence, 1902-

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Frost, William Prescott, 1924-

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Morrison, Theodore, 1901-1988

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Morrison graduated from Harvard in 1923 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Theodore Morrison, 1940-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973137 ...

Pomfret, John E. (John Edwin), 1898-1981

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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Frost family.

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Edwards, A. C

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West, Herbert Faulkner, 1898-1974

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West was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass. in 1898. He attended Pennsylvania State College before serving in the United States army, 1918-1919. He received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1922 and his A.M. degree from Dartmouth College in 1924, after working as an Instructor of English at the college. During 1924 and 1925 he pursued post graduate studies in London and Berlin, before returning to Dartmouth College as an Instructor of Comparative Literature. In 1929 he became an assistant pro...

Snow, Wilbert, 1884-1977

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Rigg, Edgar R.,

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Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965

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American writer who graduated from Bryn Mawr College (class of 1903). Among her published writings are Willa Cather: A Memoir and Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence. From the description of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant papers, 1949-1964. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 44712504 Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1881-1965), author and journalist,wrote for The New Republic and other magazines and published six books,including Fire Under the Andes (1927), Willa Cather: A Mem...

Frost, Jean,

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Cohn, Louis Henry, Mrs.

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Captain Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953) was a bookseller and Ernest Hemingway's first bibliographer. From the description of Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Ernest Hemingway collection, 1918-1983 (bulk 1925-1965). (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 575295719 ...

Smith, Marion Parris,

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Frost, Carol, 1902-1940.

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Thompson, Janet (Janet S.)

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De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955

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American educator, novelist, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass. ; White Plains, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1935-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863883 Betty White was one of De Voto's students at Northwestern in the 1920's. She was literary, and the best friend of Avis MacVicar, whom De Voto shortly married. As a senior at Northwestern, Betty Whi...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Frost, Elinor, 1873-1938

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Wife of Robert Frost. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1938. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 176629944 ...

Bernheimer, Earle J.

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Thompson, Lawrance Roger, 1906-1973

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Curator of rare books and mss., at Princeton University and editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle. From the description of Correspondence to Elizabeth Riley, and other materials, 1938. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 765267112 Lawrance Thompson was an educator, librarian and biographer. From the description of Lawrance Thompson papers, 1919-1970 (bulk 1938-1964) (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 437801401 ...

Morrison, Kathleen, 1898-

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Henry Holt and Company.

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Henry Holt was born on January 3, 1840 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated at General Prosser’s school in New Haven before attending Yale University. Although he graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1864, Holt was fascinated by literature and decided to enter the publishing world. He started his first company, Leypoldt and Holt in 1866. In 1873 Leypoldt retired and the firm became Henry Holt and Co. His most popular series was the Leisure Hour series, launched in 1872. Later i...

Rowell, Wilbur E.,

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Green, Charles R.

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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955

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Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut. From the guide to the Wallace Stevens collection, 1921-1966, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Wallace Stevens was an American essayist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Wallace Stevens collection of papers, 19...

Dunning, Tom

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