Papers of John Dos Passos, 1930-1948, n.d.

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Papers of John Dos Passos, 1930-1948, n.d.

Letters to Harold and Faith Weston, ca. 1930 and 1948, send thanks and give vacation plans. A note, n.d., in an unidentified hand, announces that a painting by Weston was sold in an exhibit for relief of the unemployed sponsored by Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair.

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University of Virginia. Library

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