Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris scrapbook, 1927-1929.

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Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris scrapbook, 1927-1929.

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Contains newspaper clippings (mostly from the Boston Herald) covering Lindbergh's flight and his engagement to Anne Spencer Morrow. Also includes a ms. letter by Nancy Byrd Turner to Mr. [C.K.] Bolton, dated Nov. 27, 1927. The letter describes how Turner came to write the poem, "The Ballad of Lucky Lindbergh," a clipping of which is also enclosed.

1 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001

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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was born in Englewood, New Jersey on 22 June 1906, the daughter of ambassador and politician Dwight Morrow and author and Smith College president Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. From 1924-1928 Anne studied literature at Smith College, where she graduated in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in English. In May 1929, after a brief courting period, Anne married Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974). Anne had met Lindbergh in Mexico in 1927, while her father was serving as ambas...

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane)

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Turner, Nancy Byrd, 1880-

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Nancy Byrd Turner, b. 1880 in Boydton, VA, d. 1971; poet, novelist, and song lyricist; graduate Hannah More Academy, Reisterstown, Md.; editor on various magazine staffs; recipient of the New England Poetry Society award, The Golden Rose and author of Zodiac Town (1921) and Magpie Lane (1927). From the description of Letter to Professor Fritchman, 1930 June 3. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 57238994 From the description of Poems [manuscript], n.d. (University ...

Boston herald.

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