Papers of the Clifton Waller Barrett family, 1960-1991.

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Papers of the Clifton Waller Barrett family, 1960-1991.

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Additional papers of the Clifton Waller Barrett family include letters, manuscripts, newsclippings, photographs and postcards. Letters from Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant mention William Dean Howells; her book on Robert Frost and Frost's Derry notebook; publication of the book and complimentary letters from noted authors; and her final illness. A letter from Isabel Wilder thanks the Barretts for a party given in honor of Frost and Sergeant. There are brief friendly notes from Fredson Bowers and John S. Van E. Kohn and a Christmas card from Erskine and Virginia Caldwell. Photographs are of the Barretts with Robert Frost and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, William Royall Tyler, and unidentified family members. The collection also contains the original manuscript of Mr. Barrett's speech to the American Antiquarian Society, 1970 October 8.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Kohn, John S. Van E.,

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Rare book dealer. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : to Clifton Waller Barrett [manuscript], 1969 June 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809788 ...

American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991

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Bibliophile. From the description of Photoprints of Barrett's personal library in New York City [manuscript], ca. 1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805897 Rare book collector. From the description of Letter: 1981 June 1, [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647826922 From the description of Notebook [manuscript], 1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810688 From the description of Addr...

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...

Caldwell, Virginia

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American painter and wife of author Erskine Caldwell. From the description of Letter, card and photograph for Cornelia and Waller Barrett [manuscript], 1984 August 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810919 ...

Wilder, Isabel, 1900-1995

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Bowers, Fredson

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Author, editor, University of Virginia Professor of English. From the description of Papers of Fredson Thayer Bowers, 1595-1992 (bulk 1922-1992). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55225082 ...

Barrett family.

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