Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995.

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Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995.

Includes correspondence of Vachel Lindsay's family and friends, especially his wife Elizabeth Conner Lindsay. Some letters relate to Eleanor Ruggles' work on her biography, The west-going heart; a life of Vachel Lindsay. Correspondents include: Joy Lindsay Blair, Eleanor Ruggles, Olive Lindsay Wakefield, Paul Wakefield, Catharine Wakefield Ward, Susan Wilcox, and Elizabeth Mann Wills. Also includes clippings, drawings, photographs, and printed materials,

3 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7794354

Houghton Library

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Ruggles, Eleanor, 1916-....

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Wilcox, Susan

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Wakefield family.

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Blair, Joy Lindsay.

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Lindsay, Elizabeth Conner, 1901-1954

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Wills, Elizabeth Mann,

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Wakefield, Olive Lindsay,

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Ward, Catharine Wakefield,

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Lindsay family.

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Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. From the description of Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612190319 ...

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...

Wakefield, Paul

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