Lindsay collection, 1924-1933 (bulk 1924-1925).

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Lindsay collection, 1924-1933 (bulk 1924-1925).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53378414

The Vachel Lindsay collection are letters written to Eugenia Graham, who met the poet while a student at Gulf Park Girls School and Junior College in Gulfport, Mississippi in the early 1920s. Lindsay was "touring" cities and schools in the south, reading his poetry at the time. Lindsay wrote to Eugenia Graham, who married R. Frank Leftwich in October 1924, over the course of several years.

1 half archive box; 1 flat box (1.5 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7667534

Amherst College. Library

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

Leftwich, Eugenia Graham.

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